We have heard about hacker attacks to U.S plenty of times from China.Chinese hackers have reportedly struck again.This time it's the U.S. agency that stores personnel information about federal employees, the Office of Personnel Management.
The hackers were apparently after the personnel files for tens of thousands of U.S. government employees who have applied to get security clearances, details that include foreign contacts, previous jobs and even intimate information such as past drug use. The attack was traced back to China, an anonymous government official told The New York Times, although there are no allegations for now that the hackers had ties with the Chinese government.
Why would they be interested in such information? by clarifying an answer for this question an expert toldaccessing such a data trove can allow hackers to prepare further attacks.
If this latest incident is true, it would be the last in a long list of breaches carried out by Chinese hackers against the U.S. government or U.S. companies. Just last year, Chinese hackers were accused of a years-long espionage campaign against several organizations in the United States, ofstealing the designs of more than two dozen advanced U.S. weapons systems, and of breaching a Department of Energy database containing sensitive information about 104,000 people.
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