{"id":45152,"date":"2022-02-04T21:35:14","date_gmt":"2022-02-04T21:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/suspected-chinese-spies-break-into-cloud-accounts-of-news-corp-journalists\/"},"modified":"2022-02-04T21:35:14","modified_gmt":"2022-02-04T21:35:14","slug":"suspected-chinese-spies-break-into-cloud-accounts-of-news-corp-journalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/suspected-chinese-spies-break-into-cloud-accounts-of-news-corp-journalists\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspected Chinese spies break into cloud accounts of News Corp journalists"},"content":{"rendered":"

Online work accounts of News Corporation journalists were broken into by snoops seemingly with ties to China, it was claimed today.<\/p>\n

Rupert Murdoch’s empire announced the security breach on Friday, describing it as a “persistent cyber-attack,” and saying it had hired Mandiant to figure out what happened. It is believed the intruders were seeking messages, files and other internal information for Beijing’s spymasters.<\/p>\n

The intrusion was discovered on January 20, the corporation’s flagship British newspaper The Times reported<\/a> this afternoon. The cyber-attack “included the targeting of emails and documents of some employees, including journalists,” wrote defense editor Larisa Brown.<\/p>\n