06-10-2015, 05:12 PM
(06-05-2015, 02:10 PM)Maggot Wrote: China the U.S. the U.K. they all have dedicated hackers working all the time trying to get something. Every once in a while a news blurp comes out. I sometimes think its a game with these people.
It seems the investigation has confirmed that it was dedicated Chinese governmental hackers who breached the OPM security, though the quoted sources are "anonymous officials" and it seems difficult to determine what should be done about it. Dangerous game.
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U.S. officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, have blamed Chinese hackers for breaching the computers of the Office of Personnel Management and compromising the records of up to four million current and former employees in one of the biggest known attacks on U.S. federal networks.
The mission of the intruders, the officials said, appears to have been to steal personal information for recruiting spies and ultimately to seek access to weapons plans and industrial secrets.
Though China has denied involvement, U.S. investigators looking into the computer break-in, which was disclosed on Thursday, have uncovered "markings," or digital signatures, left by the hackers that indicate it was likely an official Chinese government operation, two officials said on Monday.
They did not, however, offer further details as to how they reached that conclusion.
Investigators have all but discarded the notion that Chinese criminal elements might have been behind the hacking and believe it was unlikely the Beijing government hired outside hackers, though one official said that possibility had not been completely ruled out.
U.S. authorities have also begun discussions on whether to go public once they make a final assessment of responsibility, but no consensus on that has emerged, a source familiar with the investigation said.
Full story: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/06/0...RA20150608