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Chinese Hackers Attacked US Commerce Dept

The Bureau of Industry and Security was targeted by Chinese hackers, rendering some of its computers useless.

US Commerce Dept spokesperson Richard Mills:

"They discovered a targeted effort to gain access to user accounts. Some of the URLs were registered to Chinese Internet service providers. We will be setting up a new clean system with new clean hardware."

The Bureau of Industry and Security "took a series of immediate action steps to ensure that no data is compromised."

The affected computers must be replaced, as they are compromised with rootkits and spyware.

Undersecretary of Commerce Mark Foulon declared in August:

"It has become clear that Internet access in itself is a vulnerability that we cannot mitigate. We have tried incremental steps and they have proven insufficient."