BEIJING: China’s Defence Ministry on Friday denied that it had anything to do with a cyber attack on Register.com, a unit of Web.com, following a report in the Financial Times that the FBI was looking into the Chinese military’s involvement.
“The relevant criticism that China’s military participated in Internet hacking is to play the same old tune, and is totally baseless,” the ministry said in a fax to Reuters in response to a question about the story.
According to the Financial Times, hackers apparently have had access to Register.com’s network for about a year, but the attack did not disrupt or result in theft of client data.
It is not clear what the Chinese military would be looking for or what it would gain from Register.com’s data.
Register.com says on its website it manages more than 2.5 million domain names, and also provides web management and design services.
State news agency Xinhua, citing a report from the National Computer Network Emergency Response Technical Team/Coordination Centre of China, said that last year, 4,761 IP addresses in the United States controlled 5,580 Chinese websites through backdoor programmes, allowing remote access to a computer.
The ministry repeated the government’s standard line that China is one of the world’s biggest victims of hacking……….
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