Pro-Russian hackers reportedly crashed Taiwan Stock Exchange website on Thursday, local media reports

Pro-Russian hackers reportedly crashed the Taiwan Stock Exchange website connected Thursday, according to section media reports.

At 3 p.m. Taiwan time, the banal speech said "a ample fig of overseas IPs launched invalid queries" connected its network, resulting successful "unstable work for a abbreviated play of time."

The web returned to mean astatine 3:22 p.m. section time. The speech added that the securities marketplace and related businesses are "operating usually without immoderate impact." Taiwan's markets adjacent astatine 1:30 p.m. section time.

While the speech did not specify the origin of the onslaught oregon the perpetrator of the attack, local media reported this was portion of a distributed denial of service, oregon DDoS, onslaught connected the Taiwanese authorities by a pro-Russian hacker group.

The onslaught reportedly targeted Taiwanese authorities and fiscal units, including airports and taxation bureaus.

The Taipei Times reported accusation information institution Radware said the onslaught was launched successful retaliation for comments made by Taiwanese President William Lai.

On Sept. 1, Lai said successful an interview that China's claims connected Taiwan are astir changing the rules-based planetary bid and achieving hegemony successful the Western Pacific alternatively than territorial claims.

China views Taiwan arsenic portion of its territory and has not renounced the usage of unit against the island.

"It wants to execute hegemony successful the planetary area, successful the Western Pacific — that is it's existent aim," Lai said.

"If it is truly astir territorial integrity, wherefore don't they instrumentality backmost the onshore that was signed distant and occupied by Russia successful the Treaty of Aigun?" said Lai.

He added, "Now Russia is astatine its weakest. [The onshore in] the Treaty of Aigun, you [China] could person asked for it back, but you didn't."

The 1858 Treaty of Aigun was a pact betwixt the Qing dynasty — China's past dynasty — and the Russian Empire that ceded astir 600,000 quadrate kilometers of onshore successful Manchuria to Russia.

The Qing dynasty primitively refused to ratify the pact earlier confirming the cessation successful the 1860 Convention of Peking successful what China sees arsenic an 1 of galore "unequal treaties."

In 1895, Taiwan was besides ceded to Japan successful different "unequal treaty," known arsenic the Treaty of Shimonoseki, earlier being placed nether the power of the past Republic of China — Taiwan's ceremonial sanction — successful 1945 aft World War II.