PNN – China announced that it has “irrefutable evidence” of US government cyber-attacks on Beijing’s “National Time Center”.
According to the report of Pakistan News Network, citing the Japan Times, China’s Ministry of State Security accused the United States in a statement of stealing information and infiltrating Beijing’s “National Time Center.”
The statement, published on the ministry’s official WeChat account, said that since March 25, 2022, the US National Security Agency has exploited vulnerabilities in some mobile phone models of National Time Center employees with the aim of cyber attacking devices and accessing sensitive Chinese information. The names of these mobile phone brands were not mentioned.
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According to the department, the American spy agency has repeatedly used stolen login information to infiltrate computers at China’s National Time Center since April 18, 2023.
The accusations come after Western governments and companies have repeatedly claimed in recent years that Chinese hackers have launched cyber-attacks on their computer systems, and at a time when trade tensions between Washington and Beijing have escalated.
The National Time Center of China, located in the northwestern city of Xi’an, is a key research institute under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, responsible for regulating, maintaining, and disseminating the country’s standard time.
Chinese national security officials said investigations showed that private servers around the world were used to hide the origin of the attacks. The statement also stressed that Beijing had taken preventive measures and measures at the center to counter cyber-attacks.