2/3/13
"Journalists are on notice.
If you investigate the Chinese government, Chinese hackers will come after you.
That's what you should
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2/3/13
"Journalists are on notice.
If you investigate the Chinese government, Chinese hackers will come after you.
That's what you should conclude from the New York Times' disclosure that it was hacked for four months by attackers it suspects were associated with the Chinese military.
The likely motive, the Times says, was retaliation against the paper for its investigation into the wealth amassed by the family of Wen Jiabao, China's prime minister.
But this wasn't the first time Chinese hackers attacked journalists.
They infiltrated Bloomberg News last year, the Times reports.
They've also gone after the Associated Press, the Wall Street Journal, and other Western news organizations."*
The New York Times says that hackers from China- allegedly the military- had infiltrated their systems, getting all the passwords of all their reporters.
Why? Well, the Times has criticized the wealthy Prime Minister's family for his practices, for one.
Ana Kasparian and Desi Doyen (Green News Report) discuss.
*Read more from Farhad Manjoo/ Slate:
www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2013/01/new_york_times_chinese_hackers_the_attack_against_the_newspaper_of_record.html
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