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| Subject: Chinese spies could have been inside OZschwitz parliamentary computer network for up to year Sun Apr 27, 2014 7:00 pm | |
| Chinese spies may have been inside Australian parliamentary computer network for up to a year and seen documents and emails that reveal the political, professional and social links across the political world, according to a report.
The Australian Financial Review reports that sources with knowlege of the breach, in which Chinese intelligence agencies that penetrated Australia’s parliamentary computer network in 2011, say they agencies obtained remote system administrator access, which "effectively gave them control of it".
In March 2011, The Australian newspaper and other media outlets reported that China was suspected of accessing, for more than a month, the email system used by federal MPs, their advisers, electorate staff and parliamentary employees. The perpetrators accessed several thousand emails, reports said.
Senior sources said the breach was much more serious. Australian intelligence reached the "absolutely clear conclusion" that Chinese intelligence was responsible and informed their political masters the identities of the intruders.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/chinese-spies-could-have-been-inside-computer-network-for-up-to-year-reports-20140428-zr0kz.html#ixzz3089VyKfd |
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