Growing numbers of people are needed to sift through the huge volumes of data that are stolen by Chinese hackers
Such co-ordinated condemnation of the Chinese government for allegedly hacking into foreign computer systems was unprecedented. But it was no surprise in the West that China appeared to be responsible .
Spy agencies everywhere hack into other countries’ computer systems. What irks Western governments is that China also steals commercial secrets to pass on to its companies, whereas there is no evidence that the West’s spies collude with business like this. Since Mr Xi took power in 2012, China’s hacking capabilities have grown.
Attributing cyber-attacks to China, let alone to specific government agencies, is tricky. Benjamin Read of Mandiant, an American firm that tries to keep tabs on who is hacking what, explains that he and his colleagues gather and analyse telltale tracks, such as the addresses of computers used to launch attacks. A single hacking incident usually does not leave enough information to identify the culprit: attackers can give their computers a false address.
Computer experts at Chinese universities have long co-operated with cyber-theft operations conducted by the army and theSuch people have been obvious targets for recruitment by China’s intelligence agencies as in-house talent. Now the government is expanding the potential supply of hackers by creating a vast new teaching and research facility in the central city of Wuhan, says Dakota Cary of the Centre for Security and Emerging Technologies at Georgetown University in Washington.
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