New York Times, Wall Street Journal say Chinese hackers broke into computers

In response to its investigation into the wealth of relatives of Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, the New York Times has suffered sustained attacks on its computer systems, which breaching security and stole reporters and other staff members passwords.

According to The Times, one of the biggest and most respected U.S. newspapers, the cyberassaults took place over the past four months, beginning during an investigation by the newspaper into the wealth reportedly accumulated by relatives of the Chinese premier, Wen Jiabao.

The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday that its computer systems also had been infiltrated by Chinese hackers. The hackers were monitoring the newspaper's China coverage, according to a written statement from Paula Keve, chief communications officer for parent company Dow Jones & Co.

The newspaper said that the security experts it used to counter the attacks had accumulated "digital evidence that Chinese hackers, using methods that some consultants have associated with the Chinese military in the past, breached The Times's network."

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I have noticed that many websites these days have a regular Chinese poster or two who parrot the Communist party line. The Chinese don't lack people, the political will or the money to bend Western opinion in the direction it wants it to go.

By fair means or foul.