Chinese Theft o’ the Day: U.S. Weapons Lab Hack

December 09th, 2007 | Category: Gadget News

The New York Times’ John Markoff reported a scoop in today’s paper: The “cyber attack reported last week by one of the federal government’s nuclear weapons laboratories may have ORIGINATED IN CHINA, according to a confidential memorandum distributed Wednesday to public and private safety measure officials by the division

of Homeland protection.” The memo “included a list of Web and Net addresses that were linked to locations in China.” A group of hackers sent seven phishing e-mails to 1,100 lab employees. 11 staff opened the attachments, “which enabled the hackers to infiltrate the system and remove documents.”

Original post by Mike

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