Huawei hacked by U.S., according to China spy agency

It’s back to 2019 on Huawei, with the US and China exchanging barbs and the Chinese firm accused of skirting US export rules.

China foreign affairs spokesperson Mao Ning Wednesday assailed the US for “overstretching” the concept of national security in order to discriminate against Chinese companies.

She rejected a complaint by Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo over the release of Huawei’s sanctions-busting 5G phone during her visit to China last month, asserting Huawei was a private company that made its own decisions.

For some reason, China chose today to go on the offensive over cybersecurity, making the fresh accusation that the US hacked into Huawei headquarters’ servers in 2009.

The claim was made by China’s main spy agency, the Ministry of State Security, on its WeChat account and in state media. However, it did not add any clarifying details such as how long the breach lasted, when, how or by whom it was discovered, or what kind of tools were used in the attack.

By contrast, when an apparent NSA breach of a military research unit at Northwestern Polytechnical University was uncovered last year in Xi’an, the National Computer Virus Emergency Response and private firm Qihoo made extensive disclosures over the incident.

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