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China espionage - this time Germany |
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Written by Stumo
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Monday, 24 September 2007 |
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I don't consider myself a member of the Black Helicopter Society. But this China espionage stuff keeps coming.
* Our FBI told Congress that China's civilian and military spies are the world's most effective;
* The FBI is investigating Chinese students in several universities for spying;
* New Zealand's secret service accused the Chinese government of hacker attacks on government networks.
Now the German government believes the Chinese government hacked tremendous amounts of data in an "extraordinary" economic espionage operation.
Der Spiegel, quoting senior officials from the German equivalent
of Special Branch, said that the hacking operation was discovered in
May. Computers in the Chancellery, the Foreign, Economics and Research
ministries had been targeted. The Federal Office for the Protection of
the Constitution (BfV) conducted a comprehensive search of government
IT installations and prevented a further 160 giga-bytes of information
being transferred to China. Commentators described it as “the biggest
digital defence ever mounted by the German state”.
The information was being siphoned off almost daily by hackers in
Lanzhou, northern China, in Canton province and in Beijing.
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