A report compiling 114,035 detected cyberattacks perpetrated against South Korean authorities organisations between 2011 and was made 2015 June public on Friday.

The report — based on amounts from South Korea’s National Computing & Information Agency (NCIA) — was released by Im Su-kyung, an associate of the National Assembly’s Public Administration & Security Committee.

The huge variety of attempted hacks breaks down as follows: 8,663 targeted the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; 5,735 targeted the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy; 5,224 targeted the Ministry of Government Administration and Home Affairs; 3,093 assaults were perpetrated against the Ministry of Health and Welfare; and 2988 strikes took place against the National Police Agency.

“If private state information leaks out, the results may be enormous and more than 100,000 instances of hacking against government facilities have taken place,” said Sukyung. “We must do a lot more to stop the growing amount along with the increasing variety of kinds of cyberattacks.”

The most difficult difficulty in locating the source of these assaults is attribution. Each bundle of data sent over the internet includes address and source info. But that source data could be spoofed by means of an attacker by means of a proxy server to allow it to be look like it is coming from someplace it is not.

Needless to say, it’s not extremely difficult to conceal IP source in an attempted hack, and virtually none of the assaults revealed a North Korean IP address. In 2013, three cases affected an IP from North Korea and in 2012, there were only two such cyberattacks.

Formally, the IPs used in the assaults point the finger at several states. Most of them at 66,805 (58.6 percent) came from South Korea; next from China at 18,943 (15.9 percent); some 8,092 strikes (7.1 percent) came from the United States; 2,200 (1.9 percent) from Taiwan; and 1,484 (1.3 percent) from Russia. North Korea didn’t even file a percentage point.

Excludes attempted hacks that were mechanically filtered by the internet security systems of the government agencies targeted . though over 110,000 strikes looks like a lot, that

The amount also excludes amounts recorded by South Korea’s Ministry of National Defence its chief spy agency, and its National Intelligence Service. Those amounts aren’t recorded by the NCIA.

There were four fundamental kinds of cyberattacks. The biggest, totalling 33,544 — 29.4 percent of all assaults — was classified as “efforts to obtain advice without permission”. The second biggest form of cyberattack at 18,607 instances (16.3 percent) consisted of “info leakages”. Leakage of advice could refer to user or customer information including national identification number, address, telephone number, and name, along with other potentially classified info.

The 3rd kind of cyberattack was termed “authorisation acquisition efforts”, making up 16,243 strikes (14.2 percent); while the fourth kind was classified as “advice sets” at 14,077 (12.3 percent of the total).

The authorities didn’t say what damage the large numbers of strikes nor what sort of advice could have been leaked.