China is still hacking the Wall Street Journal, claims Rupert Murdoch

Rupert Murdoch, the media mogul whose newspaper empire includes the Wall Street Journal, posted on Twitter earlier today that his newspaper was still suffering at the hands of hackers.

Murdoch has waded into the developing news story about the high profile hacks, which were revealed to the world by the New York Times when it admitted that its servers had been infiltrated by hackers for four months, stealing employee passwords.

Murdoch’s seven word tweet claims that the hacks against his own companies are still going on:

Chinese still hacking us, or were over weekend.

— Rupert Murdoch (@rupertmurdoch) February 6, 2013

In a column published on Sunday, entitled “Barbarians at the Digital Gate”, the Wall Street Journal shared some details of the attack against its systems, and didn’t beat around the bush regarding what it felt about the hackers…

Read more in my article on the Naked Security website.

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