A hacker has posted thousands of internal documents he says he obtained by breaking into the network of a Chinese company with defence contracts, an unusual extension of the phenomenon of activist hacking into the world's most populous country.
told Reuters he got inside Beijing-based China National Import & Export Corp (CEIEC).
He posted documents ranging from purported US military transport information to internal reports about business
The Beijing company, better known by the acronym, CEIEC, did not respond to a request for comment. US intelligence and Department of Defense officials had no immediate comment.
CEIEC's website says the company performs systems integration work for the Chinese military.