SEOUL, Sept. 10 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's foreign ministry has seen a sharp rise in attempted hackings from China in 2017 from a year earlier, parliamentary sources said Sunday.
A total of 8,263 cases of cyberattacks or attempted hackings were detected in the foreign ministry servers from January through July, according to data provided to Rep. Park Joo-sun of the minor opposition People's Party by the foreign office.
The figure is almost on par with the corresponding number of 8,482 tallied for all of 2016, the lawmaker said.
The analysis on Internet IP addresses that attempted the cyberattacks showed that a considerable portion of them came from China.
The cyberattacks detected from the neighboring country stood at 4,509, accounting for 75 percent of all attempted cyber penetrations. The percentage has risen sharply from 54.7 percent in 2016.
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