Chinese Hackers Attack U.S. Computers

Chinese government and freelance hackers are the primary culprits behind as many as several hundred daily attacks against U.S. government, electric-utility and financial computer networks, a senior congressman said.

“Sophisticated hackers could really wreak havoc on our financial systems if they were successful,”

House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson said in an interview. The threat is

“primarily from China.”

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