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China military unit 'behind prolific hacking'

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Channel: americanhindi · 2013 · News & Politics

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A secretive branch of China's military is probably one of the world's "most prolific cyber espionage groups", a US cyber security firm has said.

Mandiant said Unit 61398 was believed to have "systematically stolen hundreds of terabytes of data" from at least 141 organisations around the world.

The White House said it has taken its concerns about cyber-theft to the highest levels of China's government.

China has denied hacking and questioned Mandiant's report.

"Hacking attacks are transnational and anonymous," said foreign ministry spokesman Hong Lei.

"Determining their origins are extremely difficult. We don't know how the evidence in this so-called report can be tenable.

Mr Hong added that Beijing "firmly opposes hacking", has taken steps to prevent it and is also a victim of cyber attacks.

In an indication of the military sensitivity around the Shanghai site pinpointed by the report as home to the hacking group, the news reporter and his camera crew were briefly detained by soldiers when they went to film the facility. They were only released once they had handed over their footage.

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