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发帖数: 901 | 1 WASHINGTON – Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Thursday that
Google's allegations of Chinese hacking of its email system are "very
serious" and will be investigated by the FBI.
Google said the hundreds of accounts affected by the breach included
personal email belonging to senior U.S. officials.
"These allegations are very serious," Clinton told reporters. "We take them
seriously. We are looking into them."
She declined to comment further on the matter, referring questions to both
Google and "to the FBI which will be conducting the investigation."
Google said Wednesday that personal Gmail accounts of several hundred people
, including senior U.S. government officials, military personnel and
political activists, had been exposed. Google traced the origin of the
attacks to Jinan, China, the home city of a military vocational school whose
computers were linked to a more sophisticated assault 17 months ago on
Google's systems.
Clinton said attacks such as the one alleged by Google were a prime reason
the State Department has for the first time created a cyber-security
coordinator. "We know this is going to be a continuing problem and therefore
we want to be as prepared as possible to deal with these matters when they
do come to our attention," she said.
The Pentagon said Thursday it had very little information since the reported
breaches involved personal accounts rather than government email. And since
the accounts were not official, the U.S. Department of Defense didn't know
whether defense employees were among the targeted individuals, the statement
said.
A day after Google exposed the breach, China denied on Thursday that it
supports hacking and said it is part of global efforts to combat computer
security threats.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei told reporters that hacking was a global
problem and Chinese networks had also been targeted by hackers, but he gave
no specifics. He said China was working to crack down on the problem, but
he didn't respond when asked whether it would investigate this specific
incident.
"Allegations that the Chinese government supports hacking activities are
completely unfounded and made with ulterior motives," Hong said.
Google said all of the hacking victims have been notified and their accounts
have been secured.
The hackers appeared to rely on tactics commonly used to fool people into
believing they are dealing with someone they know or a company that they
trust. Once these "phishing" expeditions get the information needed to break
into an email account, the access can be used to send messages that dupe
other victims.
China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, which has a hand in
regulating the Internet, referred questions about the allegations to
another regulatory agency, the State Council Information Office, which did
not respond to the questions.
The latest attacks aren't believed to be tied to the more sophisticated
assault last year. That intrusion targeted Google's own security systems and
triggered a high-profile battle with China's Communist government over
online censorship. |
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