{"id":1270761,"date":"2022-02-04T11:23:47","date_gmt":"2022-02-04T16:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1270761"},"modified":"2022-02-04T11:23:50","modified_gmt":"2022-02-04T16:23:50","slug":"news-corp-suspects-china-behind-cyberattack-on-its-journalists-company-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/news-corp-suspects-china-behind-cyberattack-on-its-journalists-company-data\/","title":{"rendered":"News Corp Suspects China Behind Cyberattack on Its Journalists, Company Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnews-corp-suspects-china-behind-cyberattack-on-its-journalists-company-data%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1270761&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1231506352.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>By Eva Mathews<\/p>\n<p>(Reuters)\u2014Digital intruders broke into&nbsp;News&nbsp;Corp&nbsp;email accounts and compromised the data of an unspecified number of journalists, the company disclosed Friday, and the media firm&#8217;s internet security adviser said the attack was likely aimed at gathering intelligence &#8220;to benefit&nbsp;China&#8217;s interests.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>News&nbsp;Corp, which publishes the <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em>, said the breach was discovered in late January and affected emails and documents of what it described as a limited number of employees, including journalists. It said that cybersecurity firm Mandiant had contained the breach.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mandiant assesses that those behind&nbsp;this activity have a China&nbsp;nexus, and we believe they are likely involved in espionage activities to collect intelligence to benefit&nbsp;China&#8217;s interests,&#8221; David Wong, vice president of consulting at Mandiant, told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese Embassy in the United States did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter seen by Reuters, company executives told their employees that &#8220;we believe the activity affected a limited number of business email accounts and documents from&nbsp;News&nbsp;Corp&nbsp;headquarters,&nbsp;News&nbsp;Technology Services, Dow Jones,&nbsp;<em>News&nbsp;UK<\/em>, and <em>New York Post<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our preliminary analysis indicates that foreign government involvement may be associated with this activity, and that some data was taken.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The company added that its other business units, including HarperCollins Publishers, Move, News Corp Australia, Foxtel, REA, and Storyful, were not targeted in the attack. Its shares were down 1.3% in morning trading. The <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em>, which reported the&nbsp;news&nbsp;first, competes with Reuters, the&nbsp;news&nbsp;division of Thomson Reuters&nbsp;Corp, in supplying&nbsp;news&nbsp;to media outlets.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese hackers have repeatedly been blamed for hacks of journalists both in the United States and elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>In 2013, for example, the <em>New York Times<\/em> reported a breach which it said had affected 53 personal computers belonging to&nbsp;its&nbsp;employees.<\/p>\n<p>The paper said that the timing of the intrusions corresponded with&nbsp;its&nbsp;investigation into the wealth accumulated by relatives of Wen Jiabao,&nbsp;China\u2019s then-prime minister.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Times<\/em> said Chinese hackers had also broken into the computers of Bloomberg employees in 2012, after the&nbsp;news&nbsp;agency published a story about the relatives of&nbsp;China&#8217;s now-leader, Xi Jinping.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, Bloomberg confirmed that&nbsp;its&nbsp;systems were targeted but said&nbsp;its&nbsp;systems were not compromised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Eva Mathews (Reuters)\u2014Digital intruders broke into\u00a0News\u00a0Corp\u00a0email accounts and compromised the data of an unspecified number of journalists, the company disclosed Friday, and the media firm&#8217;s internet security adviser said &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1270761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1270761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1270761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1270761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1270761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}