Hackers from China Broke Into the Database of U.S Federel Employees

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Hackers from China Broke Into the Database of U.S Federal Employees:

 

 

             Chinese hackers broke into the computer systems of The United States Government agency that keeps the personal information of all federal employees, according to the paper published in the New York Times.

           

  Actually the attack occurred on the Office of the Personnel Management and Senior American officials believe that the attackers successfully gained access to some of the agency's databases.

          

  Although the the attack actually occurred in March , later the federal authorities detected the threat and blocked them from the network. Hackers targeted the files of tens of thousands of federal employees who have applied for top-secretes security clearance, the newspaper reported 

"The intrusion at the Office of Personnel Management was disturbing because it overseas a system called e-QIP, in which federal employees applying for security clearances for some time are often required to update their personal information through the website", said by New York Times.

              

 Until now , it is not clear how far the hackers were able to infiltrate the networks of the US Office of Personnel Management.

              

 But the databases they managed to hack include information such as employment records, people seeking security clearance list their foreign contacts, previous jobs and personal data like past drug use etc, which all could be at risk.

 

 

 In response to this matter, a senior Department of Homeland Security officials confirmed that the attack had occurred but said that "at this time, neither the personal agency nor Homeland Security had, identified any loss of personally identified any loss of personally identifiable information. The officials said an emergency response team was assigned and handled over the matter to assess and mitigate any risks identified/".

Now again it started a cold war between China and the United States, because according to the senior US officials, the attack was traced to China. But yet it is unclear if the attackers belonged to the government.Where China said that it faces a major threat from hackers, accused the NSA and U.S Cyber command for targeting Chinese politicians and military. The U.S charged five Chinese military officials for carrying out cyber spying against several American companies and stealing sensitive data by breaking into corporate systems.

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