China Has 'Proof' Of Cyber Attacks From US

China Has 'Proof' Of Cyber Attacks From US

Days before presidential meetings between the countries, Chinese security chief says he has proof of targeted hacking from the US.

China has "mountains of data" that prove the targeted hacking of Chinese computers has come from the US, the country's top Internet security official has said.

But Huang Chengqing, the Director of the National Computer Network Emergency Response Technical Team/Coordination Centre of China (CNCERT), added that accusing the White House would be counterproductive to solving the problem.

His comments give an indication of China's approach to the highly sensitive topic of cyber security which will top the agenda when American President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping meet in California later this week.

The attitude is at logger heads with that coming from Washington officials, who said Obama will tell his Chinese counterpart that he considers Beijiing responsible for any online attacks launched from its soil.

Huang was unhappy with what he sees as a policy by the US to use the media to raise cyber attack concerns rather than to communicate directly with Chinese officials.

Reported in the state-controlled China Daily newspaper, the security chief said: "They advocated cases that they never let us know about.

"Some cases can be addressed if they had talked to us, why not let us know? It is not a constructive train of thought to solve problems."