{"id":43764,"date":"2021-11-05T15:49:25","date_gmt":"2021-11-05T15:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/packetstormsecurity.com\/news\/view\/32795\/Beijing-Fingers-Foreign-Spies-For-Data-Mischief.html"},"modified":"2021-11-05T15:49:25","modified_gmt":"2021-11-05T15:49:25","slug":"beijing-fingers-foreign-spies-for-data-mischief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/beijing-fingers-foreign-spies-for-data-mischief\/","title":{"rendered":"Beijing Fingers Foreign Spies For Data Mischief"},"content":{"rendered":"

China’s Ministry of State Security released details this week of three alleged security breaches that saw sensitive data illegally transferred abroad.<\/p>\n

State-sponsored Xinhua News Agency<\/i><\/a> described the breaches as “endangering the security of important data” and said by disclosing them, the Ministry sought to build awareness of non-traditional security and, by doing so, better maintain national security.<\/p>\n

The announcement, which deliberately coincides with the seventh anniversary of the country’s anti-espionage law<\/a>, described airline data stolen by an overseas intelligence agency, shipping data collected by a consulting firm that provided it to a foreign spy agency, and the construction of weather devices to transfer sensitive meteorological data abroad. It is unclear whether one or more foreign intelligence agencies conducted the alleged attacks, or if the actions were linked.<\/p>\n