China s gift to Africa : How China spied on the African Union via donated computers

Get the Full StoryFor a period of 5 years, China continued to spy on all electronic communications at the African Union s headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The Chinese spy operation continued throughout this period without being detected until some network administrators at the AU s headquarters discovered it in January 2017. This is according to an investigation conducted by Le Monde which has gone on to reveal how the Chinese, who donated and built the new AU headquarters in Adis Ababa, fitted the building with hidden microphones and transferred data every night from the AU s data center to their servers in Shanghai. In January 2012, the… This story continues at The Next Web

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