The Chinese Hack That Stole 22 Million People's Data

Two powers compete to dominate the global market we know foreign countries and companies swipe our corporate Secrets China Breaks the Rules in its quest to become the world's economic superpower

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There's two types of companies left in the United States companies that have been hacked by China and companies that don't know they've been hacked by China, yet Chinese hackers breach American corporations under direct orders from Beijing. This is often times a military operation and you don't disobey orders in the military, billions of dollars worth of us trade secrets are stolen every year, the people behind the keyboard think they're Anonymous and these charges show you are not

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What will it take to stop the theft?

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In July 2015 the Washington based USA office of personnel management announced that the private records it kept in more than 22 million American civil servants had been stolen the US government never formerly blamed China but plenty of unnamed officials made the accusation that Chinese government backed agencies can steal information about how ?you live with, your social security number, your date of birth, what schools you went or even your employment history so a lot of significant personally identifiable information that we consider um very sensitive and how long will the intelligence Community the United States be feeling the ramifications of this

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This data can be used to Target US government employees and contractors for many many years and to try to bribe them. ?

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Google

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Google broke the silence on their blog in January 2010 the American Technology giant had been hacked and China was to blame but Google wasn't the only company targeted it was just the first one to go public a slew of other Fortune 500 corporations were also hacked and an attack now known as operation Aurora what was interesting about operation Aurora wasn't that it was some kind of new attack it was that it was the first time an American company had had the courage to stand up and point the finger at China and say we know you did this

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Nicole pearlroth is a cyber security reporter? for the New York Times and she's written extensively on Chinese hackers and Google uh as open as they were about who had done it they've been relatively Clos lipped about what exactly was stolen but the word on the street is that uh the Chinese were actually able to get a fair amount of Google source code that source code could help Chinese hackers break into Google's products or to replicate them in the future what do we know about Chinese we know that China has basically uh made it a core part of its economic mission to stop being the world's manufacturer and start innovating

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Every 5 years you see a new industry that China wants to excel at and suddenly you just see a rush of cyber attacks towards whatever industry China has said that it wants to dominate in it's paint formulas it's Coca-Cola's negotiation strategies it's think tanks it's diplomats it's uh University professors it's law firms people have started to realize that this actually has become a serious issue or I think it made people realize that um some of the most vibrant companies in the United States were major targets but I think it took another five years for um companies that thought why would we ever be the target of a state sponsor Chinese Cyber attack to wake up and say oh we've been a victim ?

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Phishing

To click on a link so you're talking about fishing emails with malware payloads that's right in some cases uh it was actually innocent message uh not not even an email that once you click on that link your machine is compromised and the attackers take over it and how did you figure out it was China once we started tracking all the machines that were involved in the compromise and there were these multiple of machines that were set up for command and control and where the connections into those machines were coming from we started to see um signs that were pointing to Chinese activity and later on as we expanded investigation we started to uncover other activity that we were able to tie together to this group that we now call Aurora Panda uh Chinese nation state group uh that is really conducting to this day Espionage activity into numerous organizations government agencies as well as private sector organizations across the globe operation Aurora offers a glimpse into how Chinese hackers work within the country's government or more specifically its military branch the people's Liberation Army. You keep on going because you were given a mission by your by your boss to do so and uh you don't disobey orders in the military you need to achieve that objective absolutely the hackers deployed malware. ?

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Obama’s Administration

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American intellectual property was once kept secret by 2014 the Obama Administration was no longer silent for the first time the Department of Justice charged Chinese military hackers for breaking into US corporations today we are announcing an indictment against five officers of the Chinese people's Liberation Army for serious cyber security breaches against six American victim companies these represent the first ever charges against known State actors for infiltrating United States commercial targets

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What to learn about this

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Stay Vigilant

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Don't click on suspicious links

Just click on links your work colleagues, family members or closed friends send you, or from sources you trust. In case of an email, check the domain first, and see if it's a legit website, not a forged one.?

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Download just trustful files

Just download files from trustful sources, also, avoid copyright infringement.?

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