State-owned company China Telecom successfully rerouted American data, says Washinghton. by Milota Sidorova

Another interesting news came out from Washinghton last weekend. The Defense Department agreed that the U.S. Internet traffic was „hijacked“ by China. The traffic of massive volume was rerouted into Chinese servers, said the report of U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commision that has been released on Wednesday. The date of this massive internet attack is significant because it turns out to be public after more than seven months. The traffic was rerouted during 18 minutes on April 8th. The reactions on this situation are however expected, Washinghton blames Beijing and Beijing refuses complaints. According to Chinese representatives the report is just di! storting reality and recalling Cold war atmosphere and attack Chinese image. The company that stays behind 18 minutes theft is state-owned China Telecom, but the company rejects the blame. The report specifies that affected websites and emails belonged to Secretary of Defense Robert Gate's office, the armed forces and some commercial websites, the hijack was done via false notifications that prompted American servers to route data flow through China. But the report at the same time doesn't say whether this action happened on purpose or just by an accident. In any case this should be an object of investigation and further and more public discussion. Last years there has been increasing amount of cases of data and privacy violation of the cyberspace done illegaly even by the most powerful companies, including Google, Facebook, Yahoo and many others. Reality often proves that security encryption standards are really low. But it may be too rushy to connect it with this interna! tional rerouting. The motives and consequences are beyond our ! reach. W ell what happens if someone or something can successfully attack data flow of private or business even national character?

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