What kind of Pentagon computers were hacked by the Chinese military?

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http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a89c1c88-5a38-11dc-9bcd-0000779fd2ac.html

Beware: enemy attacks in cyberspace

By Demetri Sevastopulo in Washington 

Published: September 3 2007 19:00 | Last updated: September 3 2007 19:00

Lieutenant General Robert Elder, senior Air Force officer for cyberspace
issues, recently joked that North Korea "must only have one laptop" to make
the more serious point that every potential adversary - except Pyongyang -
routinely scans US computer networks. 

North Korea may be impotent in cyberspace, but its neighbour is not. The
Chinese military sent a shiver down the Pentagon's spine in June by
successfully hacking into an unclassified network used by the top policy
advisers to Robert Gates, the defence secretary. 

While the People's Liberation Army has been probing Pentagon networks
hund-reds of times a day for the past few years, the US is more alarmed at
the growing frequency and sophistication of the attacks. 

The Pentagon spent several months deflecting the recent onslaught before the
PLA penetrated its system, which was shut down for more than a week for
diagnosis. 

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