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Chinese Hackers Penetrate White House Computers
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by mtippett | November 7, 2008 at 03:57 pm
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Just when you thought things couldn't get worse for GW.
WASHINGTON — The White House computer system was penetrated numerous times by Chinese hackers, the Financial Times reported Friday.The cyber attackers obtained e-mails between government officials and stole information before U.S. computer experts fixed the system, a senior U.S. official told the Financial Times.
U.S. government cyber intelligence experts suspect the attacks were sponsored by the Chinese government because of their targeted nature. They added that it is difficult to trace the exact source of an attack beyond a server in a particular country.
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at 22:45 on November 8th, 2008
this is just awful news.. not that GW could have done anything to prohibit something like this I'm sure the best of the best comp experts were on their game at the time.. but the real question is honestly how often does something like this happen and we never hear a word about it?