Hackers hit Washington Post for second time in three years

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http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57616069-83/hackers-hit-washington-post-for-second-time-in-three-years/

By Steven Musil
CNET News
December 18, 2013

The Washington Post's servers have been breached for the second time in three 
years, giving hackers access to employee usernames and passwords, the company 
revealed Wednesday.

Neither personal subscriber information nor the newspaper's publishing system 
were believed to have been accessed in the intrusion, which the company 
suspects originated in China because it began on a server used by the 
newspaper's foreign staff. The newspaper said there was strong evidence Chinese 
hackers were behind a 2011 hack of the newspaper's job-seeker data base, as 
well as recent months-long network breaches at The New York Times and The Wall 
Street Journal.

"This is an ongoing investigation, but we believe it was a few days at most," 
Post spokeswoman Kris Coratti told the newspaper.

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