FBI Looking At China After Save Darfur Hacked
The Save Darfur Coalition, which is critical of China’s relationship with the Sudanese government, has been hacked over the last month. Hackers have entered e-mail accounts and the advocacy group’s web server. As a result, the FBI has opened a preliminary investigation that is looking at a possible Chinese connection, writes the Washington Post:
The intruders, said coalition spokesman M. Allyn Brooks-LaSure, “seemed intent on subversively monitoring, probing and disrupting coalition activities.” He said Web site logs and e-mails showed Internet protocol addresses that were traced to China.
The allegation fits a near decade-old pattern of cyber-espionage and cyber-intimidation by the Chinese government against critics of its human rights practices, experts said. It comes as calls for a boycott of the 2008 Beijing Olympics have been mounting since China’s crackdown on Tibetan protesters last week.
Origin: Ellen Nakashima and Colum Lynch, Washington Post
