http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/09/17/senate-china-hacked-military-contractor-networks/
The US Senate has been investigating for the past year a number of cyber break-ins carried out on civilian transportation companies hired by the Pentagon. These hacking incidents have been linked back to the Chinese government. Apparently the Chinese military has been able to steal e-mails, computer codes, documents, and user accounts, and they even managed to compromise the systems on board a commercial ship and hack into a US military contracted airliner. The attacks have been linked to the Chinese government based on the fact that they were so advanced as above the sophistication of, for example, civilian hackers.
So obviously this is a major security breach and a significant threat to our military operations. If China got its hands on anything significant they could do a lot with it. They could sell it to other countries. They could blackmail us. They could carry out their own attacks against us. Of course that would all depend on what exactly they got their hands on. It could be nothing significant, but that doesn't change the fact that the Chinese military now has the knowledge of how to get their hands on things that are significant. Hopefully the Senate investigation will prove successful and the Pentagon can patch this up before it gets serious.
This could turn into a very scary situation if the Pentagon is unable to get ahead of this. Like London said, China may not have hacked into anything that significant yet, but just the idea that they could get their hands on something big is a little worrisome. Hopefully, China will not use the information that they took from us in a harmful way.
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