[LINK] Hackers hit Gillard, ministers' computers

[Kim Holburn]

http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/1509096/Hackers-hit-Gillard-ministers-computers

> Hackers hit Gillard, ministers' computers
> 29 March 2011 | 07:23:29 AM	 | Source: AAP
> 
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> Thousands of emails are believed to have been accessed in the cyber attacks. (File Getty)

Why did they use a stock photo of a Mac laptop?

> The parliamentary computers of Prime Minister Julia Gillard and at least two other senior ministers are suspected of being hacked.
> 
> Ms Gillard's parliamentary computer, along with those of several cabinet ministers including Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd and Defence Minister Stephen Smith were believed to have been compromised, News Ltd newspapers report.

I can't seem to find this report.  No "hyperlink".

> Thousands of emails are believed to have been accessed in the cyber attacks.
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> Four Australian government sources confirmed with the newspapers they had been told Chinese intelligence agencies were part of a list of suspected hackers.
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> US intelligence officials alerted their Australian counterparts and News Ltd believes ASIO has started an investigation.
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> The cyber attacks are believed to be on the Australian Parliament House email network, the less secure of two networks used by MPs.
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> Ministers use a departmental network for more high security communications.
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> The newspaper reports senior sources in the government confirmed the computers were subjected to the espionage for more than a month from sometime last month.
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> Attorney-General Robert McClelland would neither confirm nor deny the attacks.


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