- The newspaper earned the ire of Beijing by publishing an article about Wen's wealth
EFE / Beijing
El diario estadounidense 'The New York Times' (NOW) ha denunciado este jueves los "persistentes" attacks of "piratas" chinos to your computer system in the last four months, since the newspaper published a reportage which recounted the immense fortune amassed by the prime minister's family Wen Jiabao.
According to the newspaper, which earned the ire of the communist authorities by encrypting 2.700 millones de dólares el patrimonio "oculto" from the Wen family, the pirates they have not been able access material sensible.
This material includes the sources that the author of the report, David Barboza, used to make the report, although both the journalist's email account, NYT delegate in Shanghai, like Jim Yardley, delegate for South Asia in India, yes they have been pirated.
"Durante los pasados cuatro meses, Chinese pirates have persistently attacked the newspaper, infiltrating the operating system and using the passwords of its reporters and other employees (in total 53)", the newspaper itself has highlighted in an article.
Military espionage methods
According to computer security experts hired by the NYT to detect attacks, los 'hackers' used methods similar to military espionage to break the newspaper's network.
The intruders only used the passwords to search for information about Wen's report, Posted by last 26 October, a few days before the 18th Congress of the Communist Party of China was held, from which the Chinese leaders of the next decade were named.
Since then, la web de 'The New York Times' is blocked in the Asian country and the newspaper was one of the few international media that did not receive an invitation to the official presentation of Xi Jinping as the new leader of the ruling political formation, after the aforementioned conclave.
In addition, Authorities decided not to renew NYT journalist Chris Buckley's visa in December, which forced the reporter to leave the country, algo que fue considerado una "represalia" by organizations such as Reporters Without Borders. However, el régimen comunista negó que se tratara de una "expulsión" and assured that the delay in the visa was due to procedural problems.
