14 DAY TRIAL // First, the US suffered. An attack on the Pentagon downed a part of their system. Then, Chinese hackers went and infected German government officials' computers with Trojan viruses, then, they went and hit English machines as well. The latest on episode on "I've been hacked by the Chinese" now features the French state. When are they going to stop? Who's next? I guess that nobody can tell for sure, but I bet on Italy or Spain, or another country that has economic power and that is informatized. In case you haven't noticed, they didn't hit any poor non-tech country, they just struck the big targets.
Just like in the case of other countries, the hackers that have attacked France had their information system as a target and a computer concerning the services of the French state has been hacked. And, as you've been used to, Chinese government officials said that they have nothing to do with this. And even if the hackers were some of their own people, the cyber-aggression was not something that could be linked to the People's Liberation Army.
The French paper, "Le Monde" contained a declaration of their Secretary-General of National Defense Francis Delon. He stated that "We have proof that there is involvement with China. But I am prudent. When I say China, this does not mean the Chinese government. We don't have any indication now that it was done by the Chinese People's Liberation Army".
I don't know what to think now, but if the government is not behind all this, then who is? Why would hackers just probe some great countries' defense? They're not getting anything out of this (not unless they're being paid for it), and as you may have seen, malware and malicious users have been financially thrived as of late.