For four months, towards the end of 2012 and into early 2013, hackers repeatedly infiltrated the New York Times, obtaining staff passwords among other things.
Security consultants found that some of the attacks were being routed through US universities to divert the blame away from the source, a method commonly associated with Chinese hackers.
The newspaper said the attacks were probably motivated by work reporters had been carrying out concerning senior figures in the Chinese government.
In February the American computer security company Mandiant published several years of research which it claimed pinpointed the hacking to one building in the Pudong district of Shanghai.
The building was reportedly the headquarters of the People’s Liberation Army Unit 61398.
Mandiant represents the cyber-security interests of several major multinational companies, all of whom believe they are the victims of Chinese hackers.
source: http://news.sky.com
Tags: Chinese hackers, New York TimesChinese military unit in Shanghai.
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