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Thanks to MamaDearest for pointing to this article:
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http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1121363949740_36/?hub=TopStories
"Government computer systems struck by intruders"
CTV.ca News Staff
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "CTV News has learned Canada's ultra-secret spy agency recently detected what the Communications Security Establishment says were "a series of sophisticated intrusions into the federal government's computer systems."
The agency, Canada's national cryptologic agency, says the attacks were minimal, and refuses to divulge exactly what the hackers were after or reveal their identities.
But Julie Spallin, federal director of the Canadian Cyber Response Centre, admits: "There is a threat to Canada in the cyber realm."
Spallin says the hackers targeted specific, sensitive information.
"Economic information is typically the most sought after" in these types of intrusions, she reveals.
Foreign intelligence agencies and organized crime have been known to attempt to steal information over the Internet from the Prime Minister's Office, the departments of Foreign Affairs and National Defence and Canada's central bank."