CNN announced that a group of Chinese cyber hackers gained access to the Pentagon. This report is unconfirmed. However, the Pentagon did report "computer networks" in the US and other countries were compromised last year.
The Chinese hackers claim to be secretly on the Beijing payroll for their services. Beijing emphatically denies this claim.
James Mulvenon with the Center for Intelligence Research and Analysis labeled the hackers "useful idiots for the Beijing regime". He stated they are allowed to continue cyber attacks as long as they are on other countries and not China.
(For more information see "Chinese Hackers: No Site is Safe")
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That these young Chinese hackers may have broken into the Pentagon's system is alarming. There is a lot we don't know about breaches in defense and intelligence web sites, because these agencies would surely withhold such information from the public.
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