Wednesday, December 21, 2011
US Chamber of Commerce gets hacked
And the hackers were from China, probably the government agency in charge of running the US government. On the serious side:
Hackers in China broke through the computer defenses of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce last year and were able to access information about its operations and its 3 million members, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.So consider this. At that time the Chinese government knew more about who was buying whom in Congress and at what price than the voters ever will. Amazing gizmo those Intertubes.
In Beijing, China dismissed the report.
The Journal, citing unidentified people familiar with the matter, reported the operation against the top American business lobbying group involved at least 300 internet addresses and was discovered and shut down in May 2010.
The newspaper reported it was not known how much information was seen by the hackers, or who may have had access to the network for more than a year before being discovered.
The group behind the breach is suspected by the United States of having ties to the Chinese government, one of the sources told the newspaper. The FBI informed the Chamber of Commerce that servers in China were pilfering its information, the source said.
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