Cybersecurity firm says Chinese hackers breached six US state agencies

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A Chinese government-backed hacking group has breached local government agencies in at least six US states in the last 10 months as part of a persistent information-gathering operation.

Washington A Chinese government-backed hacking group has breached local government agencies in at least six US states in the last 10 months as part of a persistent information-gathering operation, investigators at cybersecurity firm Mandiant said Tuesday.

The wide range of state agencies targeted include"health, transportation, labor , higher education, agriculture, and court networks and systems," the FBI and US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said in a separate, private advisory to state governments obtained by CNN.

 

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Foreign governments seem to be able to hack into pretty much anything, and they've been doing it for a good long while. Just how incompetent are the American cybersecurity 'experts'?

Well I guess it’s back to pen and paper.

But China is awesome at building highways, so let's praise them!

I wonder if China would enjoy feeling the same kind of sanctions Russia is experiencing. They better get it together fast before we turn their clock back a hundred years.

NSA attacked china agencies network for more than 10 years

Biden said nothing to see here

Well…you’ll have that kind of thing in the 21st century. Our Chinese friends.

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