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Chamber of Commerce Site Compromised

OK, back at it. Today in the mail bag I find this piece from the Wall Stree Journal about a breach in the US Chamber of Commerce website. It makes for an interesting read and a case where I would hazard that, yes, this may well be our friends from China.

From Wall Street Journal:

The break-in at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is one of the boldest known infiltrations in what has become a regular confrontation between U.S. companies and Chinese hackers. The complex operation, which involved at least 300 Internet addresses, was discovered and quietly shut down in May 2010.

It isn’t clear how much of the compromised data was viewed by the hackers. Chamber officials say internal investigators found evidence that hackers had focused on four Chamber employees who worked on Asia policy, and that six weeks of their email had been stolen.

So, emails specific to policy on Asia was purloined. I won’t make assumptions as to the motivation of the intruders but, I can’t help but to think it.

You that will leave a mark.

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