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More than 10,000 Chinese computers hacked in a year; websites vulnerable

Posted on February 14, 2016 by Dissent

Xinhua reports:

More than 10,000 computers in China were attacked by domestic and overseas hackers between December 2014 and November 2015, a cybersecurity firm has detected.

The SkyEye Lab, run by Chinese cybersecurity firm Qihoo 360, said 29 hacker organizations from home and abroad launched the attacks.

Read more on Xinhua.

Focusing on another part of the firm’s findings, Manny Salvacion reports that more than 40%  of Chinese websites were found to be vulnerable to attacks and personal information leakage, as the Global Times reported. Thirteen percent of tested web sites had high-risk vulnerabilities.

 

The report further showed that more than 5.53 billion items of personal information could have been leaked due to vulnerabilities on 1,282 websites. In the healthcare industry, the leakage rate was alarmingly high, with every loophole resulting in 9.6 million potential loss of personal information.

 

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