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South Korean Military Issues Warning on Chinese Hackers

Jung Sung-ki writes in The Korean Times:

The South Korean military has issued a warning that computer systems of soldiers and defense institutes have become the victims of presumed Chinese hacking activities, a military source said Tuesday.

The source said hackers, believed to be Chinese nationals, penetrated computers of soldiers by sending e-mail involving hacking programs falsely titled "the situation on North Korea's arms power."

"We are now investigating several cyber hacking cases believed to be conducted by Chinese nationals based on evidence that the hackers stole information stored in soldiers' computers," the source said, asking not to be named.

The hackers appeared to have penetrated Web sites of military units and retired soldiers to steal e-mail addresses of individuals registered to the sites, he said.

posted by Fergie @ 1/01/2008 07:25:00 PM