10 Biggest hacks of 2013 : Chinese Hackers

Chinese Hackers

In January, The New York Times revealed that it had been the target of Chinese hackers for at least four months. The attackers were reportedly in search of details about sources to whom Times' reporters spoke to for an October story about the wealth of China's prime minister, Wen Jiabao. 

The following month, security researchers from Mandiant traced a prolific group of computer hackers to a government-backed, military building in Shanghai, China. The firm said the People's Liberation Army Unit 61398 is located "in precisely the same area" as a section of APT1, an advanced persistent threat (APT) group that has stolen hundreds of terabytes of data from at least 141 organizations worldwide.