Attack Gave Chinese Hackers Privileged Access to U.S. Systems

Posted by bob on Jun 21, 2015 11:24 AM EDT
New York Times; By David E. Sanger, Nicole Perlroth and Michael Shear
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Undetected for nearly a year, the Chinese intruders executed a sophisticated attack that gave them “administrator privileges” into the computer networks at the Office of Personnel Management, mimicking the credentials of people who run the agency’s systems, two senior administration officials said. The hackers began siphoning out a rush of data after constructing what amounted to an electronic pipeline that led back to China...

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