[ISN] Hacking of DuPont, J&J, GE Were Undisclosed Google-Type Attacks

From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2011 05:45:38 -0600 (CST)
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-03-08/hacking-of-dupont-j-j-ge-were-undisclosed-google-type-attacks.html

By Michael Riley and Sara Forden
Bloomberg
March 08, 2011

The FBI broke the news to executives at DuPont Co. late last year that 
hackers had cracked the company’s computer networks for the second time 
in 12 months, according to a confidential Dec. 9, 2010, e-mail 
discussing the investigation.

About a year earlier, DuPont had been hit by the same China- based 
hackers who struck Google Inc. and unlike Google, DuPont kept the 
intrusion secret, internal e-mails from cyber-security firm HBGary Inc. 
show. As DuPont probed the incidents, executives concluded they were the 
target of a campaign of industrial spying, the e-mails show.

The attacks on DuPont and on more than a dozen other companies are 
discussed in about 60,000 confidential e-mails that HBGary, hired by 
some of targeted businesses, said were stolen from it on Feb. 6 and 
posted on the Internet by a group of hacker-activists known as 
Anonymous. The companies attacked include Walt Disney Co., Sony Corp., 
Johnson & Johnson, and GE, the e-mails show.

The incidents described in the stolen e-mails portray industrial 
espionage by hackers based in China, Russia and other countries. U.S. 
law enforcement agencies say the attacks have intensified in number and 
scope over the past two years.

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