American officials are claiming that the Chinese military successfully hacked
computers inside the
Pentagon
in June.
The Pentagon has told the
Financial
Times that it had to shut down computers used by
Robert
Gates, the current defence secretary and ex-head of the CIA, after hackers
managed to crack the systems.
The officials said that they had a "very high level of confidence ...
trending towards total certainty" that the attacks came from the People's
Liberation Army [PLA]".
"The PLA has demonstrated the ability to conduct attacks that disable our
system ... and the ability in a conflict situation to re-enter and disrupt on a
very large scale," said a former Pentagon official.
The attack caused the Pentagon to take down 1,500 computers for checking and
cleaning.
China has denied claims that it was involved.
Meanwhile, German chancellor Angela Merkel has complained that German systems
have been penetrated by Chinese hackers. She raised her complaints with Hu
Jintao, China's president.
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