TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — The Taiwan Stock Exchange (TWSE) suffered an outage on Thursday (Sept. 12) caused by the pro-Russia hacker group “NoName057(16).”

The outage led to delays on the website, per CNA. The exchange said this was due to a large volume of queries on the website. 

However, the issue has since been resolved and is unrelated to the trading system. The incident occurred after the Taiwan stock market had closed.  

Normal trading hours are 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Some media outlets reported TWSE website issues between 3-4 p.m. but did not add when it started.

On Monday (Sept. 9), NoName057(16) launched cyberattacks on some websites in Taiwan. In a tweet, the group claimed this was because President Lai Ching-de (賴清德) had suggested China “take away Russia's land in the Far East.”  

Since then the hackers have launched DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks against the tax bureau websites of several Taiwanese counties and cities. 

The list of sites the group claims to have affected includes the TWSE, Taipei Stock Exchange, Taipei Songshan Airport, Chang Hwa Bank, and the Directorate General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics. Also affected were branches of Mega Financial Holding Co., including Mega Funds, Mega Securities, and Mega Bills.