On Friday, media conglomerate News Corp said it suffered a cyber attack in which the corporate accounts of various employees of the companies it controls, including those of journalists, were hacked. News Corp, which controls some of the world's leading newspapers and tabloids and numerous Australian and British newspapers, said the attack was discovered in late January: the cybersecurity consultancy on behalf of the publisher has said he suspected that the hackers who conducted the attack were conducting espionage activities on behalf of the Chinese government.
In an internal document addressed to employees and quoted by the Wall Street Journal, one of the newspapers involved in the attack, it is said that among others the accounts of an unspecified number of employees of the New York Post, of the News Corp headquarters, were hacked. , publisher Dow Jones and News UK, publisher of the Sun, Times and Sunday Times. The press release specifies that some data has been stolen and that from initial analyzes it seems that the attack has been resolved.
In recent years, the US authorities have accused China on several occasions of carrying out or attempting to carry out similar cyber attacks targeting a number of agencies, government offices and newspapers in the country: among the US newspapers that had suffered in the past attacks of this type include the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal itself.
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