Chinese Hackers Infiltrate New York Times Computers - NYTimes.com

Sign of the times

"The timing of the attacks coincided with the reporting for a Times investigation, published online on Oct. 25, that found that the relatives of Wen Jiabao, China’s prime minister, had accumulated a fortune worth several billion dollars through business dealings.
Security experts hired by The Times to detect and block the computer attacks gathered digital evidence that Chinese hackers, using methods that some consultants have associated with the Chinese military in the past, breached The Times’s network. "

Chinese Hackers Infiltrate New York Times Computers - NYTimes.com