Chinese Titan Rain attacks stole massive U.S. military data from 2003 to 2006
Evidence
Hackers sneak into our military mainframes, bypassing firewalls and surreptitiously inserting foreign code. Between 2003 and 2006, for example, Chinese hackers launched a series of coordinated cyberattacks against U.S. defense and aerospace installations. Before they were finally detected and the wormholes filled, these “Titan Rain” attacks pulled masses of sensitive military data from the U.S. Department of Defense, the Pentagon, NASA, Los Alamos Laboratories, Boeing, Raytheon, and other sources. Titan Rain demonstrated with startling clarity how China could use cyberwarfare as an asymmetric tactic to undermine conventional forces of an adversary. — Emlen, Douglas J, Animal Weapons_ The Evolution of Battle, 420
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Chinese hackers compromised controls of America’s most advanced weapons systems — Emlen, Douglas J, Animal Weapons_ The Evolution of Battle, 421