Chinese Hackers Penetrated Dutch Defense Network: Report

Communist China hacked into a Dutch defense network, the Netherlands has acknowledged. State-backed actors gained access to the Dutch military network last year and achieved persistent access, according to a Dutch intelligence report released on Feb. 6. “It is important to ensure that espionage activities of this nature committed by China become public knowledge since this will help to increase international resilience to this type of cyber espionage,” Dutch Defense Minister Kajsa Ollongren said on Feb. 6. The report, jointly published by the Dutch Military Intelligence and Security Service (MIVD) and the General Intelligence and Security Service (AIVD), did not clarify what information the hackers were trying to obtain....