SEOUL, June 20 (UPI) -- The computer systems of six Korean state agencies, including two defense research institutes, were reported cracked Sunday by an anonymous hacker.
The anti-cyber crime institute said the Peep Trojan hacking program infected 64 computers at six government agencies, including the Agency for Defense Development and the Korea Institute for Defense Analyses, the Korea Times reported.
Also affected were the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute, the Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, the National Maritime Police Agency and the Small and Medium Business Administration.
"As soon as we discovered some government computers were contaminated by the Peep Trojan hacking program, we took emergency measures and currently there is no risk of data outflow," the NCSC said in a statement.
The NCSC added it shut down the hackers' posting site, distributed anti-virus programs and updated the anti-hacking system to prevent a recurrence of the dangerous incursion.
The agency, however, failed to confirm whether or not confidential information was stolen from the invaded agencies before the presence of the virus was detected.
