Wednesday, July 12, 2006

US gov PCs hacked by Chinese?

U.S. State Department publicly recognizes that some of computers inside its Washington DC building have been broke in, especially the computers inside the beaure of East Asia and Pacific Affairs, a section of dealing China, Japan and Koreas.

A washington Post article also reports that, The Pentagon warned earlier this year that China's army is emphasizing hacking as an offensive weapon. It cited Chinese military exercises in 2005 that included hacking "primarily in first strikes against enemy networks."

The breakin also affected many U.S. diplomats, who had to change their passwords, and unable to access their online banking system for a period of time.

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