Beijing says it has “irrefutable evidence” that the U.S. NSA has been attacking its National Time Service Center since 2022

China says it has “irrefutable evidence” that the ￰0￱ has been attacking its National Time Service Center since ￰1￱ claims that the ￰2￱ its spy agency to hack its timekeeping system. China’s Ministry of State Security claims to have proof that the ￰3￱ cyberattacks against its time ￰4￱ ministry posted a statement on its WeChat claiming that it has clear proof that the NSA hacked the center in Xi’an. This center controls China’s official time ￰5￱ provides exact time information to the government and ￰6￱ accuses ￰7￱ hacking time center China’s Ministry of State Security says the ￰8￱ Security Agency (NSA) carried out cyberattacks against China’s National Time Service Center (NTSC).

China claims the ￰9￱ mobile phones and computers at the ￰10￱ NTSC, located in Shaanxi province in northwest China, keeps the country’s clocks ￰11￱ synchronizes time across China and helps set world time ￰12￱ ministry says the ￰13￱ targeting the center’s computers and data threatened its ￰14￱ attacks reportedly started on March 25, ￰15￱ NSA supposedly used security vulnerabilities in NTSC workers’ phones to steal private information from their ￰16￱ April 18, 2023, the ministry says the NSA used stolen passwords to break into the center’s computer ￰17￱ Ministry of State Security says investigators tracked the attacks to private computer servers in different countries that hid where the attacks really came ￰18￱ has since added stronger security at the time center to stop future ￰19￱ rejects Western hacking claims For years, Western governments and security companies have blamed Chinese hackers for attacking systems, companies, and infrastructure in the U.

S., Europe, and ￰20￱ ￰21￱ charged several Chinese nationals with hacking linked to China’s Ministry of State Security, which Washington accuses of stealing trade secrets and data from American ￰22￱ denies the claims and instead alleges that the ￰23￱ global spying and hacking ￰24￱ Ministry of State Security says the National Time Service Center is extremely important to China. It’s critical for “government work, science, and business.” China did not share technical details or computer evidence to back up its claims, but it did say that the NSA used middleman servers and secret channels to hide where the attacks came ￰25￱ ministry also noted a similarity in the NSA’s actions and other attacks found at Chinese ￰26￱ says it “opposes all cyberattacks” and wants all countries to “follow international rules” ￰27￱ up to Bybit and start trading with $30,050 in welcome gifts