China says NSA hacked its Northwestern Polytechnical University


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China claims the US’s National Security Agency (NSA)’s “Office of Tailored Access Operations” (TAO) carried out “tens of thousands of malicious network attacks on network targets in China, and controlled tens of thousands of network devices” as well as breaching a university – Northwestern Polytechnical University, which operates a government-backed aeronautics programme – with a range of custom offensive security tools. The university is governed by China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and describes itself has having "programmes in aeronautics, astronautics, and marine technology engineering... [and] strong programmes in materials, mechanical engineering and mechanics, as well as computer science."...