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Andy Greenberg

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05.20.2021 06:00 AM

The Full Story of the Stunning RSA Hack Can Finally Be Told

In 2011, Chinese spies stole the crown jewels of
cybersecurity--stripping protections from firms and government
agencies worldwide. Here's how it happened.

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A collage of images including servers and a hand holding a seed.
Illustration: Eduardo Ramon Trejo; Getty Images; Alamy

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Amid all the sleepless hours that Todd Leetham spent hunting ghosts
inside his company's network in early 2011, the experience that
sticks with him most vividly all these years later is the moment he
caught up with them. Or almost did.

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Andy Greenberg is a senior writer for WIRED, covering security,
privacy, and information freedom. He's the author of the book
Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most
Dangerous Hackers. The book and excerpts from it published in WIRED
won a Gerald Loeb Award for... Read more
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