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.
