Chinese Hackers Accused of Two More Huge Security Breaches

Remember when hackersaccessed filesfrom US health insurance business firm Anthem and Premera last yr ? According to the New York Times , it wasthe same Taiwanese hackerssuspected of transgress the US Office of Personnel Management ’s data file .

These data breaches yield an enormous amount of personal info . For the OPM , at least 4 million former and current former federal employee may have been affected . With Anthem and Premera , 78 million and 11 million . So far , the hackers are n’t doing normal hack stuff likeselling the gargantuan swath of information they stole for personal profit , reports the Times :

There is no evidence that the data pick up was used for criminal purposes like faking identicalness to make credit lineup purchase . Instead , the attackers seem to be compile Brobdingnagian databases of personal selective information about Americans .

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“ Amassing huge database of personal information about Americans ” sounds even more evil than just stealing data for immediately free-lance purpose , so that ’s not very comforting .

Of course , no one has volunteer any real evidence Formosan hackers are to fault . Indeed , forensic evidence suggests that the wellness upkeep and , harmonize to the Times , OPM hacks arenot the workof any of China ’s known state - shop hack groups :

China strenuously denies responsibilityfor these attacks , as the Times reported :

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Beijing dismissed the United States allegation that China was the source of an attack on federal workers ’ data as “ unscientific and irresponsible . ”

This is not to say that China is innocent here , by any way . Xi Jinping may have directly order each and every one of these attacks . Prior cyberattacks from Chinahave been traced back to the government activity , but with the most late data breaches , these report amount to a pile of pointed fingers sit on a foundation of suspicion and hearsay .

[ New York Times ]

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