China denies ‘hijacking’ internet traffic

Source:Jack Halliday, The Guardian

NChina today denied US allegations that it “hijacked” highly sensitive internet traffic – including emails sent to and from US military websites – earlier this year.

A state-owned telecoms company in China had access to 15% of global internet traffic, including confidential emails from Nasa and the US army, for 18 minutes in April, according to an annual security report delivered to the US congress on Wednesday.