A hacker group, Swagg Security, claims it has breached China
Telecom's backend system and published over 900 login details of its
administrators. Warner Bros was also a victim as its intranet system was
broken into.
According to a message posted on information-sharing Web site, pastebin,
on Monday, the hacker group said it had been downloading the
information from the Chinese telco's SQL server, which it described as
one with "extremely low processing capacity", for about a month. Even
though Swagg Security caused several instances of distributed denial of
service (DDoS) while downloading the information, the IT department at China Telecom "thought nothing of it" and only moved its SQL server after realizing it had been hacked.