Chinese hackers steal private data from 760 firms

[security curmudgeon <jericho () attrition org>]

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http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2012/05/08/chinese-hackers-steal-private-data-760-firms.html

The Jakarta Post
05/08/2012

China-based hackers are reportedly targeting US-based Google Inc and Intel 
Corp.

An attack hackers launched on iBahn could help them access secret e-mails, 
even encrypted ones, according to a US senior intelligence official 
familiar with the matter.

As many as 760 companies have had their data accessed by hackers through 
iBahn, which runs broadband business and provides entertainment access for 
guests of Marriott International Inc?s global network and other hotel 
chains, as well as for multinational companies that hold meetings in the 
hotels.

Internet security company Trustwave Corp SpiderLabs chief Nick Percoco 
said what was more concerning was that hackers might have used the iBahn 
system as a stepping stone to connect to companies linked to the system by 
creating a ?secret backdoor? through employees who had stayed in one of 
the hotel chains.

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