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The Justice Department rewrote its own hacking announcement two days later

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The US Justice Department has quietly rewritten a press release that said Chinese hackers had claimed victims across the Senate, the Federal Reserve, NASA and half a dozen other federal bodies. The revised version says those organisations were targets, and that only some were actually compromised, as Reuters reported. The original text went out on […] This story continues at The Next Web

First report: US officials backpedal on claims that government agencies were hacked by Chinese, now say they were targets — straitstimes.com, 17d