Japan’s defense chief said Tuesday that Tokyo has not confirmed that top secret information was leaked, after a U.S. media report said China had hacked the country’s classified defense networks.
The hacking of Japan’s "most sensitive computer systems" — the Defense Ministry’s classified defense networks — was uncovered in the fall of 2020, The Washington Post reported Tuesday, citing former senior U.S. officials.
It quoted the officials as saying that the hackers “had deep, persistent access and appeared to be after anything they could get their hands on — plans, capabilities, assessments of military shortcomings.”