"The Chinese military hacked into a Pentagon computer network earlier
this year in the most successful cyber attack ever on the US defence
department, according to US officials.
The Pentagon acknowledged shutting down part of a computer
system serving the office of Robert Gates, the defence secretary, in
June, but refused to say who it believed had been behind the incursion.
Current and former officials have now told the Financial Times
that an internal investigation into the attack has revealed it came
from the Peoples’ Liberation Army.
One senior US official said the Pentagon had pinpointed the
exact origins of the attack. Another person familiar with the event
said there was a “very high level of confidence …trending towards
total certainty” that the PLA was responsible.
The Defence Ministry in Beijing declined to comment on Monday.
Angela Merkel, Germany’s chancellor, raised reports of Chinese
infiltration of German government computers with China’s premier, Wen
Jiabao, in a recent visit to Beijing, after which the Chinese foreign
ministry said the government opposed and forbade ”any criminal acts
undermining computer systems, including hacking”. "
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