Suspicion is growing that operatives in China, rather than India, were behind the hacking of emails of an official commission that monitors relations between the United States and China, U.S. officials said.
Suspicion grows China was behind hack of U.S. commission
News of the hacking of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission
surfaced earlier this month when an amateur "hacktivist" group
purporting to operate in India published what it said was a memo from an
Indian Military Intelligence unit to which extracts from commission emails were attached.
But U.S. officials
who spoke to Reuters on condition of anonymity said the roundabout way
the commission's emails were obtained strongly suggests the intrusion
originated in China, possibly by amateurs, and not from India's spy
service.
William Reinsch, a former top U.S. Commerce Department official, said he
could think of "no particular reason" why the Indian government or
Indian hackers would be interested in him. By contrast, he and several
other U.S. officials said that Chinese hackers, whether amateur or
directly affiliated with Chinese government, would have great interest
in the U.S.-China Commission's activities, both public and private.
1 comment:
Was William Reinsch convinced more by lack of malicious intent or by lack of ability?
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