China ‘tops list’ of cyber-hackers seeking UK government secrets
China leads the list of countries hacking into government computers that
contain Britain’s military and foreign policy secrets, Whitehall sources
said yesterday.=20
The emergence of Beijing as one of the most hostile state hackers has
been highlighted in the United States this week, with allegations that
the Chinese People’s Liberation Army tried to extract secrets from a
computer in the Pentagon office of Robert Gates, the US Defense
Secretary.=20
President Bush suggested that he intended to confront China directly
over the claims that it has been trying to hack into Pentagon and other
US government computers. Mr. Bush hinted that he was prepared to risk a
diplomatic rift by raising the sensitive issue with President Hu Jintao
when the pair meet in Sydney today at the Asia-Pacific Economic
Cooperation (Apec) summit.=20
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