Canada’s Conservative Party allies and owners of large chunks of Canada’s resources, the Communist Party of China, has been accused of illegally hacking into the databases of the NY Times newspaper.
Chinese hackers repeatedly penetrated The New York Times' computer systems over the past four months, stealing reporters' passwords and hunting for files on an investigation into the wealth amassed by the family of a top Chinese leader, the newspaper is reporting.
Security experts hired to investigate and plug the breach found that the attacks used tactics similar to ones used in previous hacking incidents traced to China, the report said Thursday.
It said the hackers routed the attacks through computers at U.S. universities, installed a strain of malicious software, or malware, associated with Chinese hackers and initiated the attacks from university computers previously used by the Chinese military to attack U.S. military contractors.
The attacks, which began in mid-September, coincided with a Times investigation into how the relatives and family of Premier Wen Jiabao built a fortune worth over $2 billion US. The report, which was posted online Oct. 25, embarrassed the Communist Party leadership, coming ahead of a fraught transition to new leaders and exposing deep-seated favoritism at a time when many Chinese are upset about a wealth gap.
The fascinating thing about this type of story is the fact that, whilst governments in the Western world are chasing their tails trying to locate Al-Queda operatives in their midst, the real danger is the vastly greater number of Communist Chinese operatives working to dismantle our way of life and system of values in ways the Islamists couldn’t even begin to conceive of. And they do it with the tacit support and acceptance of the very governments we hire to protect us.
