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Chinese Hackers Thought To Be Back In Yahoo Email Attack
Doug Caverly
Staff Writer
2010-03-31
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It's not hard to imagine that, sooner or later, computer experts outside China might choose to reinforce the Great Firewall (in an attempt to keep Chinese hackers contained) rather than fight it and support free speech. And it's not hard to imagine that they'd do so in the near future, considering that Chinese hackers have been accused of going after key individuals yet again.
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Andrew Jacobs, who's based in Beijing, wrote, "In what appears to be a coordinated assault, the e-mail accounts of more than a dozen rights activists, academics and journalists who cover China have been compromised by unknown intruders."
The accounts - which were provided by Yahoo, not Google, this time around - were in some cases just made inaccessible. But Jacobs added, "In the case of this reporter, hackers altered e-mail settings so that all correspondence was surreptitiously forwarded to another e-mail address."
That's potentially a very aggressive move, considering that many of these reporters and activists could have been in touch with (and protecting the identities of) Chinese dissidents. Prison sentences or even executions might occur if the Chinese government learned the dissidents' names.
Yahoo did tell the affected email accounts' owners of the problem, though, and the situation seems to have been remedied.
About the Author:
Doug is a staff writer for SecurityProNews, InternetFinancialNews, SearchNewz, and WebProNews.
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