Multiple Taiwanese government sites were disrupted by distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks following the much-publicized arrival of U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi who became the first high-ranking U.S. official in 25 years to visit the democratic island nation.
Pelosi reportedly met Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen and reiterated America’s support for the country of 24 million.
The cyber attacks caused intermittent outages across the government English portal, some websites of the presidential office, foreign ministry, and defense ministry.
According to Taiwan’s foreign ministry, the attacks on its website and the government’s English portal were linked to Chinese and Russian IP addresses that tried to access the websites up to 8.5 million times per minute.
A separate statement from a Tsai spokesperson on Facebook said the attack had funneled 200 times more traffic than usual to the site. However, it w
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