On Monday, the Financial Times reported that unnamed U.S. military officials told reporters that the Chinese military had hacked into Pentagon computers in June, in what they characterized as “the most successful cyberattack” to date on Department of Defense computers. The report come a week after German news magazine Der Spiegel alleged that the Chinese had hacked into German government computers. Both governments expressed a high degree of confidence that the information breaches led back to operations run by China’s military, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA).

Chinese officials vehemently denied the allegations.

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