The New York Times has reported
that for the last four months Chinese hackers have been infiltrating
its networks, broken into the email accounts of senior staff, stolen the
corporate passwords for every Times employee and used those to gain
access to the personal computers of 53 employees.
According to the report, the first attack came in mid-September 2012
as the newspaper prepared to publish an investigation into the family of
Chinese prime minister Wen Jiabao, who are said to have accumulated
billions of dollars through business dealings.
Malware was planted on users' computers which opened backdoors for
the hackers to gain remote access to connected systems - including a
domain controller that contained usernames and hashed passwords for all
of the New York Times' employees.
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