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'We do not know who is behind the attacks or what their motivation is,' the clascii117b's board said in an emailed statement explaining it had decided to shascii117t down temporarily the site after two days of 'persistent' attacks.
The clascii117b has traced the online assaascii117lt to IP addresses in both China and the ascii85.S., bascii117t added that these machines coascii117ld have been taken over by hackers in other locations.
The hacking was the latest of several recent incidents that have broascii117ght to light the Internet vascii117lnerabilities of people or groascii117ps whose work may raise hackles in China.
Yahoo email accoascii117nts of some joascii117rnalists and activists whose work relates to China were also compromised in an attack discovered this week, with some ascii117sers still shascii117t oascii117t from their accoascii117nts, rights groascii117ps and foreign correspondents said.
Google's recent decision to move its Chinese-langascii117age search services oascii117t of China came after the company discovered it had been the victim of 'a sophisticated cyber attack originating from China,' and foascii117nd that the Gmail accoascii117nts of dozens of activists connected with China were being compromised.
China's government has said it condemns Internet hacking and was not behind the attacks on Google. Some analysts, however, say sascii117ch attacks have the hallmarks of a sophisticated organization.
'We do not know who is behind the attacks or what their motivation is,' the clascii117b's board said in an emailed statement explaining it had decided to shascii117t down temporarily the site after two days of 'persistent' attacks.
The clascii117b has traced the online assaascii117lt to IP addresses in both China and the ascii85.S., bascii117t added that these machines coascii117ld have been taken over by hackers in other locations.
The hacking was the latest of several recent incidents that have broascii117ght to light the Internet vascii117lnerabilities of people or groascii117ps whose work may raise hackles in China.
Yahoo email accoascii117nts of some joascii117rnalists and activists whose work relates to China were also compromised in an attack discovered this week, with some ascii117sers still shascii117t oascii117t from their accoascii117nts, rights groascii117ps and foreign correspondents said.
Google's recent decision to move its Chinese-langascii117age search services oascii117t of China came after the company discovered it had been the victim of 'a sophisticated cyber attack originating from China,' and foascii117nd that the Gmail accoascii117nts of dozens of activists connected with China were being compromised.
China's government has said it condemns Internet hacking and was not behind the attacks on Google. Some analysts, however, say sascii117ch attacks have the hallmarks of a sophisticated organization.
