http://online.wsj.com/article/NA_WSJ_PUB:SB124027491029837401.html
Apparent related story April 2009? - reporting multiple security breaches (as a result of the initial 2008 breach?)
This article pins it on the Chicoms
Attacks like these — or U.S. awareness of them — appear to have escalated in the past six months, said one former official briefed on the matter. “There’s never been anything like it,” this person said, adding that other military and civilian agencies as well as private companies are affected. “It’s everything that keeps this country going.”
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Aug 25, 2010
Deputy Defense Secretary William Lynn III, in an article to be published by the journal Foreign Affairs, writes that a flash drive inserted into a laptop on a military post in the Middle East in 2008 caused the most significant breach of military computers.
Malicious code placed on the drive by a foreign intelligence agency uploaded itself onto a network run by the U.S. Central Command, according to the article.
“That code spread undetected on both classified and unclassified systems, establishing what amounted to a digital beachhead, from which data could be transferred to servers under foreign control,” Lynn says in the article, as quoted by the Washington Post. “
http://www.govinfosecurity.com/articles.php?art_id=2869