Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans
The ongoing saga of successful foreign hack attacks on government databases continued Monday with news of another break-in allegedly perpetrated by China. Just days after the reported spear-phishing attack on the Pentagon’s joint staff email system, which exposed some 4,000 civilian and military employees and is believed to have been sponsored by Russia, anonymous government sources told NBC News that a separate set of Chinese hack attacks targeted the personal emails of “all top national security and trade officials”. These attacks – among the more than 600 hacks attributed by officials to hackers working for the Chinese government – sought personal email info from top administration officials and began in 2010. NBC’s source said the hacks were still going on but would not name any of the officials targeted. The US government is dealing with several different investigations into breaches, of security, the largest of which is the hack of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) – an intrusion that exposed the personal information of some 22 million people. That investigation has been troubled by intramural squabbling by the agency’s own admission: Patrick McFarland, the office’s inspector general, wrote a strongly worded memo to acting OPM director Beth Cobert accusing […]
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