Foreign hackers targeted Canadian firms

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http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2011/11/29/pol-weston-hacking-firms.html

By Greg Weston
CBC News
Nov 29, 2011

A leading cyber-crime expert says foreign hackers who launched a massive 
attack on Canadian government computers last fall also broke into the 
data systems of prominent Bay Street law firms and other companies to 
get insider information on an attempted $38-billion corporate takeover.

Daniel Tobok, whose international cyber-sleuthing company was called in 
by a number of the firms hit by the attacks, says the hacking spree from 
computers in China were all connected to last year's ultimately 
unsuccessful takeover bid for Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan.

"All those different attacks on companies, law firms and government were 
all interconnected — they weren't isolated incidents," he said in an 
interview with CBC News.

The cyber-forensics guru with prominent clients around the world calls 
the assault on Canadian companies and the government "one of the biggest 
attacks we have ever seen."

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