China Does Some Economic Espionage To Prep For Merkel Visit?
"China accused of hacking into Merkel administration" from Times of London reports that as Chancellor Angela Merkel travels to Beijing with piracy on her agenda, the Chinese have been accused of economic espionage - hacking into her Chancellery and three other ministries' computers.
Der Spiegel, quoting senior officials from the German equivalent of Special Branch, said that the hacking operation was discovered in May. Computers in the Chancellery, the Foreign, Economics and Research ministries had been targeted. The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) conducted a comprehensive search of government IT installations and prevented a further 160 giga-bytes of information being transferred to China. Commentators described it as “the biggest digital defence ever mounted by the German state”.
One can just imagine what is being pilfered out of our US installations besides the blatant content piracy that is rampant - how many of our government's digital data is being perused?
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