Democratic Party of Korea website hit by suspected DDoS during all-member vote
On 13 April 2025, during an all-member vote on the Democratic Party of Korea's primary rules, traffic to the party's website surged and access was disrupted three times. Suspecting a DDoS attack, the party decided to report the security incident to the Korea Internet & Security Agency (KISA) and request an investigation. Online voting, which was conducted on a separate server, suffered no further damage.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- Democratic Party of Korea
- Incident type
- DDoS
- Occurred / detected
- 2025-04-13
- Scale of damage
- Three website access outages
- Cause / method
- Traffic surge from a suspected DDoS attack
- Location
- South Korea
Timeline
- Traffic to the website surged during the all-member vote on primary rules, and access was disrupted three times.
- The Democratic Party of Korea said it would report the incident to the Korea Internet & Security Agency (KISA) and request an investigation, adding that online voting on a separate server suffered no further damage.
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