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US Chamber of Commerce Infiltrated By Chinese Hackers

Posted by Unknown on from the security-through-insecurity dept.

SpzToid writes "The Wall Street Journal is now reporting that a group of hackers in China breached the computer defenses of the United States Chamber of Commerce. The intrusion was quietly shut down in May 2010, while FBI investigations continue. 'A spokesman for the Chinese Embassy in Washington, Geng Shuang, said cyberattacks are prohibited by Chinese law and China itself is a victim of attacks. ... Still, the Chamber continues to see suspicious activity, they say. A thermostat at a town house the Chamber owns on Capitol Hill at one point was communicating with an Internet address in China, they say, and, in March, a printer used by Chamber executives spontaneously started printing pages with Chinese characters.'" According the article, the group "gained access to everything stored on its systems" and may have "had access to the network for more than a year before the breach was uncovered."

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  1. Re:Idiots. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    "Dont blame chinese. the hackers could as well be kiddies."

    Exactly.

    China has what, 1/5th the world's population? has the most people on the internet of any country? 1 in 5 or near enough random non state sponsored hack attacks coming from China isn't exactly an unlikely coincidence is it?

    Yet each time there's a hack attack "from a Chinese IP address" it's sold as "China hacked into the US".

    Just a few months back at my old employer I had an automated attack attempt on one of our web servers from an IP in Colombia, and one from the US. Does this mean Colombia and the US were trying to hack into us?

    America needs to stop trying to turn China into some demon country that's trying to destroy it. Really, if China wanted to destroy the US it could, it basically financially owns it. It's economy is doing pretty well regardless of whatever the fuck the US Chamber of Commerce is doing.

    It's exactly the same type of bollocks Argentina tries to pull "Oh crap, we're in a political/economic mess at home, I know let's stir up some resentment over the Falklands again to divert attention". It's boring, it doesn't wash, and it only causes more problems in the world, so fucking quit it.