New York: The investigation into the NewsCorp hacking incident has revealed the activity to be likely from China, NewsCorp said. In an email to employees on Friday, David Kline, NewsCorp’s chief technology officer and Billy O’Brien, its chief information security officer , said the “attack activity” was dicovered on January 20 on a system that is used by company’s several business units. ABC News quoted the company as sating that the activity affected a “limited number of business email accounts and documents from NewsCorp headquarters, News Technology Services, Dow Jones, News UK, and New York Post.” The threat has been contained and federal authorties have also been notified, it said adding that “the systems housing customer and financial data were not affected. In addition, we have not experienced related interruptions to our business operations.” Mandient, a cybersecurity firm that was brought for the investigation, has alleged China’s involvement in the matter. “Mandiant assesses that those behind this activity have a China nexus, and we believe they are likely involved in espionage activities to collect intelligence to benefit China’s interests,” said Dave Wong, vice president, incident response at Mandiant. ABC News quoted a person familiar with the situation said journalists were among the targets of the alleged attack. On January 31, FBI Director Christopher Wray had warned of possible dangers of China trying to steal US information. “The Chinese government steals staggering volumes of information and causes deep, job-destroying damage across a wide range of industries — so much so that, as you heard, we’re constantly opening new cases to counter their intelligence operations, about every 12 hours or so,” Wray said in a speech at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. UNI RNJ
