Friday, February 1, 2013

Both New York Times and Wall Street Journal claim to have been hacked by China

New York Times, for the article about Wen Jiabao's family accumulating massive wealth.

Wall Street Journal, for monitoring the newspaper's coverage of China.

Both claim that the hacking starting with their office or staff in China. This is similar to Google's claim that it was hacked, starting from its staff in China.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/01/technology/wall-street-journal-reports-attack-by-china-hackers.html?_r=0

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  1. Nine years later, in early Feb. 2022, News Corp., owner of the WSJ, NY Post, Dow Jones & other publications, disclosed that hackers breached journalists’ email accounts & documents. The intrusion dated back to at least Feb. 2020 and has been attributed to hackers from China, based on analyses done by Mandiant. The hackers prioritized stories on: Taiwan, the Uyghurs, U.S. military activity & China-focused tech regulation. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/04/business/media/news-corp-email-hack.html?searchResultPosition=2

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