South Korea has blamed Chinese hackers for hidden information from 35 million accounts on a renouned amicable network.
The attacks were destined at the Cyworld website together with the Nate web portal, both run by SK Communications.
Hackers are believed to have stolen phone numbers, email addresses, names and encrypted information about the sites' many millions of members.
It follows a array of new cyber attacks destined at South Korea's supervision and financial firms.
Details of the crack were suggested by the Korean Communications Commission.
It claimed to have traced the source of the intrusion back to P.C. IP addresses formed in China.
The Nate portal gives people access to web services such as email whilst the Cyworld amicable site lets people share images and updates with friends and allows them to emanate an avatar that inhabits a tiny practical apartment.
Like many other nations, South Korea has suffered a spate of hacking attacks in new months. One situation in April targeted a government-backed bank.
A month later, information on more than 1.8 million customers was stolen from Hyundai Capital.
Government ministries, the National Assembly, the country's army HQ and networks of US Forces formed in Korea were moreover hit.
Earlier this year, the South Korean supervision drew up a cyber safety outline in an endeavor to frustrate the attackers.
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