Chinese hackers broke into a US regime network in an endeavor to gain personal information on thousands of employees, US media report.
First reported by the Incipient York Times, the hackers in March allegedly targeted those applying for high-level security clearance positions, BBC reports.
Secretary of State John Kerry called the incident an “attempted intrusion” that was still under investigation.
The report has not officially been substantiated by the US homeland security.
Both countries have long incriminated each other of cyberspying.
The US acknowledges that it conducts espionage but verbalizes unlike China it does not spy on peregrine companies and pass what it finds to its own companies, the BBC’s China editor Carrie Gracie verbally expresses.
Beijing typically shrugs inculpations off as a smear motivated by those who find its growing technological might hard to bear, our correspondent integrates.
Kerry told the Associated Press news agency on Thursday he and Treasury Secretary Jack Lew, who are in China as a component of an annual forum between the two regimes, were only notified of the incrimination of malfeasance after the gathering’s conclusion.
“We did not raise it in categorical terms,” he verbalized about the latest incrimination, integrating it did not appear sensitive material was compromised.
“We raised the subject, conspicuously.”
An unnamed official told the Incipient York Times that the March attack was traced to China, but it is obscure if the latest incrimination was connected to the regime – a China spokesman verbalized it was “resolutely opposed” to internet hacking.
“Some of the American media and cyber-security firms are making constant efforts to smear China and engender the soi-disant China cyber threat,” Peregrine Ministry spokesman Hong Lei verbally expressed.
“They have never been able to present sufficient evidence,” he verbally expressed, integrating China was “deeply convinced” such reports were “not worth refuting”.
In May, the US charged five Chinese army officers with hacking into private-sector American companies in a bid for competitive advantage, in the first cyber-espionage case of its kind.
While it is unlikely the officers will ever be prosecuted, the US has identified and posted photos of those they believe to be responsible.
Last year, cyber-defence company Mandiant published a report on a Chinese military unit the firm verbalized was abaft the prodigious majority of consequential attacks on American federal agencies and companies.
