NYT says victim of Chinese hackers, China denies

January 31, 2013 16:54

The New York Times today said Chinese hackers have carried out sustained attacks on its computer systems, breaking in and stealing the passwords of reporters, including in India, after the paper's expose of vast wealth amassed by Chinese premier Wen Jiabao's family.

"Security experts hired by the Times to detect and block the computer attacks gathered digital evidence that Chinese hackers, using methods that some consultants have associated with the Chinese military in the past, breached the Times's network," the New York Times said.

"They broke into the e-mail accounts of its Shanghai bureau chief, David Barboza, who wrote the reports on Mr Wen's relatives, and Jim Yardley, the Times's South Asia bureau chief in India, who previously worked as bureau chief in Beijing," the paper said.

Reacting to the charge, China categorically dismissed New York Times's claims that Chinese hackers have persistently attacked computer systems of the paper for the last four months after it carried the story of the family of Wen accumulating over USD 2.7 billion assets.

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