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China Hacked US Banking Regulator From 2010 Until 2013 - and US Officials Covered It Up: Report (reuters.com) 88

According to a Congressional report, China's spies hacked into computers at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) from 2010 until 2013. The report adds that American government officials tried to cover it up. From a Reuters report: "Even the former Chairwoman's computer had been hacked by a foreign government, likely the Chinese," staff at the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space and Technology said in the report. The report was the latest example of how deeply Washington believes that Beijing has penetrated U.S. government computers. But while making the allegation that China was the culprit, the report does not provide specific evidence to support that conclusion.
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China Hacked US Banking Regulator From 2010 Until 2013 - and US Officials Covered It Up: Report

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  • Is this announcement about cybersecurity, or just a card played in the game of South China Sea?

  • I wish I was a chinese right now, they are the coolest nation ever. They just do as they please. I'm sure they could crush USA in a war.
    • Sure, if by "crush" you mean "get roflstomped in 48 hours by the"

    • You think you'd be the tank driver. You're more like shopping bag guy, but without the courage.

    • I wish I was a chinese right now, they are the coolest nation ever. They just do as they please. I'm sure they could crush USA in a war.

      There are many, good reasons for admiring the Chinese and perhaps even their government, but being able to do whatever you please is probably not one of them; it mostly leads to arrogance and carelessness - as they say, "pride stands before a fall". Well, look at America's history since WWII.

      That said, I don't think China have ambitions about taking over the world by force - why would they, when they can simply keep increasing their political influence through finance, industry, science etc etc? But I think

  • At least we're giving them plenty of business and trade deals. My conscience is clear. I for one welcome our new Oriental Overlords.

  • by Anonymous Coward

    This kind of coverup generally means there's something going on *against* the Chinese. Both sides are probably fist deep in each other's ass, and neither is quite ready to pull out yet.

  • by account_deleted ( 4530225 ) on Wednesday July 13, 2016 @03:37PM (#52505589)
    Comment removed based on user account deletion
    • That's different (Score:4, Insightful)

      by future assassin ( 639396 ) on Wednesday July 13, 2016 @04:03PM (#52505767)

      She a rich American politician, she has a higher level of citizen status. Now get back to your stable lower class citizen.

    • i heard an american scooped up tons of classified data and put it on her personal email server, and then they made her president.

      Hilary's private email server is sounding more secure than the governments each passing day.

  • The daily coverup (Score:5, Insightful)

    by Tailhook ( 98486 ) on Wednesday July 13, 2016 @03:43PM (#52505635)

    Yesterday we learned the State Department destroyed public records [washingtonpost.com] concerning the illegal use of US government funds to campaign against Netanyahu. [washingtonpost.com] We are, once again, expected to believe that State Department officials are somehow blithely ignorant of their obligations to retain government records. We are expected to believe the correlation between deleted messages and illegal activity is purely coincidental. Just saving a little space in the inbox.

  • I recommend we stop playing either game and move on to Pokemon GO, as this will confuse them and keep our banks free to loot America

  • Anybody surprised? (Score:5, Interesting)

    by WindBourne ( 631190 ) on Wednesday July 13, 2016 @04:01PM (#52505751) Journal
    Seriously, china is in a cold war with the west. So, they are going to do everything that we allow them to do, though I am not certain why we allow this.
    BUT, it is not much different than what is happening with India. We see all of these backdoors going into our corporate software which is then traced to 'Russia', and nearly all of these have 2 things in common. The first is that they run Windows, and the Second is that within the previous 2 years, normally 1, the company outsourced to India. Not any other nation, just India. And why does this matter? Because the average Indian IT worker makes less than $10,000. It should not be surprising then that backdoors come in from India, which are then removed by Russians and replaced with different ones.
    Just 20-30 years ago, it was well known that any massive pay difference would lead to ppl being bought. And Russia remains good friends with India and can travel freely over there (and they do). So, America not only allows numerous nations to manipulate and dump on their markets, but then also, we KNOWINGLY allow attacks from both China AND India.
  • Doesn't matter. Hillary will NOT be indicated. End of the story. Cyber security? What's that?
  • by Anonymous Coward

    The obvious solution to this problem is more backdoors. /s

  • My bro is one of the higher-ups at FDIC. When talking to him last Sunday evening (3 days ago), he said he had to go to work earlier in the day but didn't say why. Which in retrospect is highly unusual, these government career bureaucrats almost *never* work on Sundays.

  • Is anyone really and truly surprised that the government has been lying to us for years?

    Especially this Obama government? Say one thing, do another. Or, if possible, just never say anything at all...

    This is typical of Chicago Machine politics. "Thou Shalt Not Get Caught" is the primary rule.

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