http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/829072.shtml
By Chen Yang
Global Times
2013-12-2
The website of the new China Coal Bank has been hacked by Japanese
financial companies and their Chinese partners, JinBen Investment Group
Co, one of the founders of the bank, claimed in a statement on Sunday.
Meitanbank.com has been hacked since Friday, with the hacker leaving a
number of messages, including, "the China Coal Bank has offended many
people." Another message claimed that JinBen "colluded with financial
institutions to drive up share prices in the coal and nonferrous metal
sector in the mainland stock market on Friday, leading to losses of
several hundred million yuan for our financial groups."
"We've found that our website has been attacked by a large number of IP
addresses based in Japan," Wang Wenyuan, a Guangzhou-based spokesman for
JinBen, told the Global Times on Sunday.
The firm also said two of its staff members were attacked by strangers on
Thursday, and wiretaps have been found in the company's office.
Wang said the company will not call in the police, but will take action on
its own, without offering further details. In the statement, the company
said it might take advice from hacker group Honker Union of China.
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