China’s National Computer Virus Emergency Response Centre slammed the United States on Monday for allegedly hacking a state-funded university in Xian that has aeronautics and space research programs, claiming the perpetrator was an espionage unit of the US National Security Agency and that the US had launched “tens of thousands” of cyberattacks on China and pilfered troves of sensitive data, a report by the South China Morning Post said.
In a statement released following its investigation, it urged the US to “stop stealing [from] and attacking other countries”, the report said, claiming that nearly 140 gigabytes of valuable data had been “stolen” from Chinese universities by US hackers with assistance from groups in Europe and South Asia.
The claim comes two months after the heads of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation and Britain’s M15 warned that China was engaged in a “breathtaking” covert program to steal technological secrets from businesses all over the world.
Read the full report: South China Morning Post.
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