House of Paine

han hackers

 braking into the pentagon



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" Web sites in China
 are being used heavily 
to target computer networks 
in the Defense Department 
and other U.S. agencies,
 successfully breaching hundreds
 of unclassified networks,
 according to several U.S. officials"

 "Classified systems have not been compromised,
 the officials added.
 But U.S. authorities remain concerned because,
 as one official said,
 even seemingly innocuous information,
 when pulled together from various sources,
 can yield useful intelligence to an adversary"

 

 
"The scope of this thing is surprisingly big," 
said one
   of four government officials 
who spoke separately about the incidents,
 which stretch back as far as two or three years 
and have been code-named Titan Rain
 by U.S. investigators "


"Whether the attacks constitute 
a coordinated Chinese government campaign
 to penetrate U.S. networks 
and spy on government databanks 
has divided U.S. analysts"

" Some in the Pentagon are said to be convinced
 of official Chinese involvement;
 others see the electronic probing 
as the work of other hackers
 simply using Chinese networks 
to disguise the origins of the attacks"

"It's not just the Defense Department 
but a wide variety of networks 
 that have also been hit
the Departments of State,
 Energy and Homeland Security 
as well as defense contractors,"