Wall Street Journal Says Hit by Chinese Hackers Too

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Submission + - Wall Street Journal Says Hit by Chinese Hackers Too (securityweek.com)

Submitted by wiredmikey on Thursday January 31, 2013 @06:29PM

wiredmikey writes: The Wall Street Journal said Thursday its computers were hit by Chinese hackers, the latest US media organization citing an effort to spy on its journalists covering China.

The Journal made the announcement a day after The New York Times said hackers, possibly connected to China's military, had infiltrated its computers in response to its expose of the vast wealth amassed by a top leader's family.

The Journal said in a news article that the attacks were "for the apparent purpose of monitoring the newspaper's China coverage" and suggest that Chinese spying on US media "has become a widespread phenomenon."

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