Taiwan Ministry of Digital Affairs
Cabinet-level ministry responsible for Taiwan’s digital governance and cybersecurity policy. Its National Institute of Cyber Security operates the monitoring units that detect and respond to intrusions against government agencies.
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The ministry’s cybersecurity monitoring units detected an “abnormal attack” against government agencies in July 2026 and, beginning July 20, issued a series of warning alerts while investigating. Its public statement, on 2026-08-13, confirmed the attack showed “clear characteristics of an overseas source” combining manual operations with AI agent-assisted attacks, naming OpenClaw specifically, and that “the affected units have successively completed their handling.”1 It did not name China as the source; China’s Taiwan Affairs Office did not respond to Reuters’ request for comment.
The statement is the first instance in this wiki of a national government issuing a same-week public confirmation of an AI-agent-driven intrusion against its own agencies, one day after the technical account was shared with the press by the researching vendor, Dream Security.
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Taiwan says it was targeted last month in AI-driven hacking campaign, Reuters, 2026-08-13 (byline Ben Blanchard, Raphael Satter). Summarized at the source summary. ↩