Snowden revelations just gave China more ammunition against US hacking [View all]

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BEIJING (Reuters) - China's Foreign Ministry expressed serious concern on Monday after a newspaper reported that New Zealand and U.S. intelligence services planned to hack into a data link between Chinese government buildings in Auckland.

New Zealand newspaper the Herald on Sunday, citing details provided by former U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden, said the project appeared aimed at tapping data between the Chinese consulate and its passport office.

"We are extremely concerned about this report. We strongly urge the relevant countries to immediately stop using the Internet to damage the interests of China and other countries," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei told a daily news briefing.

Prime Minister John Key, speaking on Radio New Zealand, said he would not take "literally by any stretch of the imagination everything" said by Snowden and his local supporters.

"[Snowden's] a thief and he stole and you've got a bunch of people who've been out there propagating information that's actually been proven to be incorrect," Key said.

http://www.businessinsider.com/r-china-seriously-concerned-at-new-zealand-hack-attempt-report-2015-4


In case anyone has the unmitigated gall to be outraged at the Five Eyes hacking into China, let me direct your attention to:

Chinese hackers infiltrated U.S. companies, attorney general says
http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/19/justice/china-hacking-charges/index.html
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/05/19/us-accuses-china-of-cyber-espionage/9273019/

Accused Chinese Hacker Of U.S. Systems Arrested In Canada
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/07/13/chinese-hacker-su-bin-us-canada-arrest-richmond_n_5581471.html

Chinese hackers spying on India, South-East Asia for almost a decade: Research
http://www.techienews.co.uk/9727910/chinese-hackers-spying-india-south-east-asia-almost-decade-research/

Meet the team who just exposed China's insanely powerful hacking tool
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-great-cannon-chinese-hacking-tool-exposed-2015-4

Why do the Chinese Hack? Fear
http://warontherocks.com/2015/04/why-do-the-chinese-hack-fear/

Chinese Hackers Defy Apple's New Security
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2014/10/21/chinese-hackers-defy-apples-new-security

China Is Hacking the US Again
http://gizmodo.com/china-is-hacking-the-us-again-508837615

Why Would Chinese Hackers Steal Millions of Medical Records?
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-08-18/why-would-chinese-hackers-steal-millions-of-medical-records-.html

Major U.S. Weapons Compromised By Chinese Hackers, Report Warns
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/major-us-weapons-compromised-chinese-hackers-report-warns/story?id=19271995

China suspected in major hacking of health insurer
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/investigators-suspect-china-may-be-responsible-for-hack-of-anthem/2015/02/05/25fbb36e-ad56-11e4-9c91-e9d2f9fde644_story.html

Read those and get back to me...