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China denies it hacked Pentagon
Agencies
Published: September 04, 2007, 13:20
Beijing: China on Tuesday rejected a report that hackers controlled by
its military had successfully entered a Pentagon network, calling the claim a
product of "Cold War" thinking.
The Financial Times, citing former and serving US officials, said Chinese
People's Liberation Army hackers broke into a US Defence Department network in
June, taking data and prompting the shutdown of a system serving department
secretary Robert Gates.
The report came a week after German Chancellor Angela Merkel raised
similar claims that Chinese hackers had infected German government ministries
with spying programmes.
China deflected the German reports, and now it has flatly rejected the US
claims.
"The Chinese government has consistently opposed and vigorously attacked
according to the law all Internet-wrecking crimes, including hacking," Foreign
Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu said.
"Some people are making wild accusations against China ... These are
totally groundless and also reflect a Cold War mentality."
Beijing has devoted a large part of its rising defence budget to
developing more advanced technology, including computer capabilities. But Jiang
said her government was also the victim of computer attacks.
The Financial Times cited one source familiar with the event as saying
there was a "very high level of confidence ... trending towards total
certainty" that the army was behind it.
It said hackers from various locations in China had spent several months
trying to tap into the system before breaching its cyber defences, forcing the
Pentagon to shut down its network for more than a week.
US President George W. Bush is scheduled to meet Chinese President Hu
Jintao in Sydney while the two leaders are there for the APEC regional summit.
The FT quoted a former US official as saying the PLA was now able to
disrupt and even disable the Pentagon's computer system.
"The PLA has demonstrated the ability to conduct attacks that disable our
system ... and the ability in a conflict situation to re-enter and disrupt on a
very large scale," the former offical told the newspaper.
The Financial Times reported that the Pentagon was investigating what
data had been taken, and a source told the paper that most of it was probably
unclassified.
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