Sunday, October 7, 2007

US blames China for Pentagon Hack

American officials are claiming that the Chinese military successfully hacked computers inside the Pentagon in June.

The Pentagon has told the Financial Times that it had to shut down computers used by Robert Gates, the current defence secretary and ex-head of the CIA, after hackers managed to crack the systems.

The officials said that they had a "very high level of confidence .... trending towards total certainty" that the attacks came from the People's Liberation Army [PLA]. More ..

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