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It is amazing how much damage can be made those days by Cyber spies...
Dec. 14 (Bloomberg) -- Google Inc. and Intel
Corp. were logical targets for China-based hackers, given the solid-gold
intellectual property data stored in their computers. An attack by
cyber spies on iBahn, a provider of Internet services to hotels, takes
some explaining.
iBahn provides broadband business and
entertainment access to guests of Marriott International Inc. and other
hotel chains, including multinational companies that hold meetings on
site. Breaking into iBahn’s networks, according to a senior U.S.
intelligence official familiar with the matter, may have let hackers see
millions of confidential e-mails, even encrypted ones, as executives
from Dubai to New York reported back on everything from new product
development to merger negotiations.
More worrisome, hackers might have used iBahn’s
system as a launching pad into corporate networks that are connected to
it, using traveling employees to create a backdoor to company secrets,
said Nick Percoco, head of Trustwave Corp.’s SpiderLabs, a security
firm.
