WaPost: U.S. Advanced
Weapons Designs Stolen by Chinese Hackers
The
building housing “Unit 61398” of China's People’s Liberation Army is seen in
the outskirts of Shanghai. Cyberattacks that stole information from over 100
targets in the U.S. and other countries have allegedly been traced to the
Chinese military unit in the building.
Chinese hackers have stolen some of
America's most sensitive weapons designs — a dangerous development that could
endanger soldiers in a conflict with China, The Washington Post reports.
A confidential report prepared for the Pentagon by the Defense Science Board does not accuse the Chinese government, but senior officials told the Post that the breaches were part of a growing espionage effort that targets defense contractors.
Many of the larger contractors have put up effective security, so the hackers have gone after subcontractors instead.
“In many cases, they don’t know they’ve been hacked until the FBI comes knocking on their door,” a senior military official told the Post. “This is billions of dollars of combat advantage for China. They’ve just saved themselves 25 years of research and development. It’s nuts.”
The cybertheft gives China an edge that it could exploit during a conflict, it accelerates China's military technology while saving it billions of dollars in research costs and the American designs can be used to benefit China's own defense industry.
The report's public version says that such cyber-attacks could cause "severe consequences for U.S. forces engaged in combat," including cutting communications links that could make weapons fail to operate correctly. Planes, satellites and drones might crash, the report said.
"If they got into the combat systems, it enables them to understand it to be able to jam it or otherwise disable it," said Winslow T. Wheeler, director of the Straus Military Reform Project at the Project on Government Oversight. "If they’ve got into the basic algorithms for the missile and how they behave, somebody better get out a clean piece of paper and start to design all over again."
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A confidential report prepared for the Pentagon by the Defense Science Board does not accuse the Chinese government, but senior officials told the Post that the breaches were part of a growing espionage effort that targets defense contractors.
Many of the larger contractors have put up effective security, so the hackers have gone after subcontractors instead.
“In many cases, they don’t know they’ve been hacked until the FBI comes knocking on their door,” a senior military official told the Post. “This is billions of dollars of combat advantage for China. They’ve just saved themselves 25 years of research and development. It’s nuts.”
The cybertheft gives China an edge that it could exploit during a conflict, it accelerates China's military technology while saving it billions of dollars in research costs and the American designs can be used to benefit China's own defense industry.
The report's public version says that such cyber-attacks could cause "severe consequences for U.S. forces engaged in combat," including cutting communications links that could make weapons fail to operate correctly. Planes, satellites and drones might crash, the report said.
"If they got into the combat systems, it enables them to understand it to be able to jam it or otherwise disable it," said Winslow T. Wheeler, director of the Straus Military Reform Project at the Project on Government Oversight. "If they’ve got into the basic algorithms for the missile and how they behave, somebody better get out a clean piece of paper and start to design all over again."
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7 comments:
who knows its a cabal press!!!
The Chinese government couldn't be much worse than the American government.
No more secrets...
CLINTON GAVE INFO AWAY ALONG TIME AGO..BILL.
These guys want to pretend that what they're saying is actually true. If they are so smart and so interested in security, then you tell me why they had the computer chips that operate the ICBM's made in China.
What a way to serve lies to people.Only morons will believe them.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Let's see, what could be worse....
Chinese hackers steal weapons designs...
or
Bill Clinton hands over super secret military intelligence to the Chinese attache in The White House. This was witnessed by a white House employee. She now is dead.
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