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A political scandal is brewing in Korea over alleged denial of service attacks against the National Election Commission (NEC) website. Police have arrested the 27-year-old personal assistant of ruling Grand National Party politician Choi Gu-sik over the alleged cyber-assault, which disrupted a Seoul mayoral by-election back in …

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  1. Turtle

    Yes but. . .

    Yes but who won the election: i.e. what is the possibility that this actually effected the outcome of the election?

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    1. Bumpy Cat
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      Apparently not

      Park Won-Soon won the election. He's an independent outsider, with a lot of support from the young (20s-30s) demographic. The GNP is the big incumbent party, and it's one of their staffers accused in this case (and possibly acting on orders from higher up).

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  2. Turtle

    Thank you for the info!

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  3. David Mery

    Follow the money

    http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_editorial/510303.html

    "The police have admitted that around the time the National Election Commission website was disabled by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, a large amount of money changed hands among Grand National Party figures who were subsequently arrested in connection with it. [...]"

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