The colective anonymous launched this Friday a cyber attack against the website of the nuclear power plant of fukushima and from other government pages in protest against the plan to dump its waters into the ocean.
The cybersecurity company NNT reported that the gang had started a Distributed Denial of Service or DDoS attack, which overwhelms a website by sending an avalanche of data from various sources in a short time. As a result, the server is unable to respond to all requests and becomes saturated.
The attack was claimed by the Italian branch of Anonymous although activities from the group based on Vietnam.
Along with that of Fukushima, the web pages of the Atomic Energy Agency and the Atomic Energy Society of Japan were also hit by the cyberattack. Even officials of the former assured that their domain registered a traffic 100 times higher than usual though they noted that users were fortunately able to continue browsing while a fix was being worked on.
On the other hand, NTT said that the group intensified its attacks in recent times and even published a “target list” of its attacks, which includes Tepco, the Liberal Democratic Party and the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.
“It is necessary to maintain vigilance as the attacks could intensify after the discharge,” added a representative of the Tokyo-based company.
The action of Anonymous was given as a sign of rejection of the plan of the Japanese Executive, for which it plans to dump wastewater into the ocean.
He International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) studied his condition and concluded that complies with international “standards” to be released and what does it mean a “low radiological impact” for the population and the environment.
However, these statements failed to contain the great discontent that the initiative generated in many sectors of society and in other countries in the region.
Anonymous, one of the main detractors, maintains that the release of the waters it will disperse its pollution in the immensity of the ocean and will put marine life and the food chain at risk.
On the other hand, it questions the lack of citizen participation in voting of the project, the null public debate at international level and they even accuse the cabinet of the prime minister Fumio Kishida of non-transparent manoeuvres.
“We must put an end to the senseless act of turn the sea into a dumping ground for economic benefits”, said one of the members of the organization to the medium Kyodo News.
South Korea also rejected the plan and kept his veto on fishery products from the Fukushima region, even despite anticipating a “minimal impact” on its shores.
The water in debate was submitted to the Advanced Liquid Processing System (ALPS)which enables eliminate almost all radioactive substances -with the exception of tritium, a natural isotope of hydrogen- and remains stored in tanks awaiting discharge.
Kishida is scheduled to visit the nuclear power plant this weekend to inspect the unloading facilities and storage conditions before leading the ministerial meeting to define the start of operations.
(With information from Europa Press)
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