Post: Chinese firm hacked Indian immigration data

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India is one of the targets of China’s intelligence and cyber-surveillance and Beijing’s hackers appeared to have successfully breached 95.2 gigabytes of immigration data from the Indian government, an investigation by The Washington Post has revealed. The Post, in a report published Thursday, said that a trove of leaked documents from a “Chinese state-linked hacking group shows that Beijing’s intelligence and military groups are carrying out large-scale, systematic cyber intrusions against foreign governments, companies and infrastructure — exploiting what the hackers claim are vulnerabilities in software systems from companies including Microsoft, Apple and Google”. “The cache — containing more than...