Source: Daily Telegraph:
“Large scale” electronic attacks by foreign intelligence services have sucessfully compromised the security of many large British companies, according to a Government agency.
In evidence to a Parliamentary committee, The Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure, a Government agency, said that Government-backed hackers from China and Russia were behind a large proportion of the operations.
Their aim is to steal government, defence and technology information. Most large firms have been targeted and, in ”many cases”, the attacks have been successful.