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Title: China Outs US Hackers for Attack, a New Frontier in Spy Games

Link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/04/15/2012...

China's outing of alleged US National Security Agency hackers marks a major
escalation in the ongoing tit-for-tat between Chinese and American
intelligence agencies, according to analysts. From a report: Chinese
authorities Tuesday said three NSA employees hacked the Asian Winter Games
held this year in Harbin, accusing them of targeting systems that held vast
amounts of personal information on people involved in the event. The hacks
"severely endangered the security of China's critical information
infrastructure, national defense, finance, society, production, as well as
citizens' personal information," Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Lin Jian
told reporters. While the US has repeatedly published names of alleged
Chinese hackers and filed criminal charges against them, China has
historically refrained from making similar accusations against American
spies. Rafe Pilling, director of threat intelligence at the cyber firm
Sophos' Secureworks unit, said the development may signal a broader policy
change from Chinese security agencies, with allegations of US cyberattacks
becoming more specific and timely. "This is an escalation in China's
experimentation with 'name and shame' policies for the alleged perpetrators
of cyberattacks, mirroring US pursuit of a similar policy for a number of
years now," said Pilling.

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