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Monday, March 07, 2011

China 'hacked' into secret S. Korea military files

RQ-4A Global HawkChinese computer hackers last June gained access to secret South Korean military files on a planned spy plane purchase from the United States, a Seoul lawmaker says, as quoted by AFP.

The hackers accessed information in defence ministry computers on the plan to buy unmanned Global Hawk aircraft, said Shin Hak-Yong, an opposition Democratic Party lawmaker and a member of parliament's defence committee.

"A government official reported the incident to me... the government has not raised the issue with China yet and is still debating how to handle it," Shin's spokeswoman quoted him as saying, confirming his comments reported in Monday's Chosun Ilbo newspaper.

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