Hackers have gained access to the weather service of the united states and the information that the designated satellites provide. In addition, there are claims that Chinese hackers Australian media have invaded, where this weekend the G20 is taking place.
The hack in the system for the weather service at the end of september occurred, writes the Washington Post. The NOAA, the National Weather Service falls under, the hack temporarily covered and is only recently with an official statement come out. The NOAA confirmed the hacking, and according to sources of the Washington Post is going to be Chinese hackers who access managed to get to the systems. The Chinese embassy denies the allegation.
The hackers were given according to a person concerned via a web server access to the system. The server was connected with a large number of computers of the NOAA, but was insufficiently protected. The source compared the security with a house that is by a wire gauze door was protected.
For a long time denied the NOAA that there was a hack. The security team was during the break-in forced to essential information close. The information regarding emergency planning, aviation and shipping. The NOAA said at the time that the unscheduled work. The hack would be detected and would be equivalent to respond to. It is unclear whether there data is captured.
The news about the NOAA hack followed an attack, whereby data of 800,000 employees of U. S. Postal Service, were captured. In that case, is also suspect Chinese are behind the hack, but there is still no evidence. In addition, have allegedly Chinese hackers, according to ABC broken in the Australian media and the Australian government would be under fire. In the country this weekend, a G20 meeting was held. ABC is based on statements of the co-founder of security firm CrowdStrike, which regularly conducts research to attacks that originate from China.
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