Nor was any sensitive data related topublishing systemwas accessed.The Compromised accounts (Username and password) were in encrypted form, but it is possible that hacker somehow can decode it.The intrusion was of very short time, and began with an intrusion into a server used by The Posts foreign staff but eventually spread to other company servers before being discovered.said Post Officials.Evidence strongly pointed over Chinese hackers who were behind the intrusion of Posts connection in 2011 along with The new York Times, The wall street journal, and several other Washington based institutions.The company have suffered at least third intrusion in past three years, of which one was by the hands of Chinese hackers in 2011, One bySyrian Electronic Army in mid August this yearand now which seems to be Chinese hackers again.
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