Washington Post becomes third US newspaper to be targeted in suspected Chinese hacking attack

The Washington Post yesterday became the third major US news organisation to reveal that it had been targeted by a sophisticated cyber-attack believed to be the work of Chinese hackers. Read more

"We spent the better half of 2012 chasing down compromised PCs and servers. [It] all pointed to being hacked by the Chinese. They had the ability to get around to different servers and hide their tracks. They seemed to have the ability to do anything they wanted on the network."