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Forbes.com was hacked in November

Chinese hackers hijacked Forbes.com and used the business news site as part of an attack on the U.S. defense and financial industry, according to cybersecurity researchers.

Andrea Peterson of The Washington Post writes, “For three days late last year, the news site’s ‘Thought of the Day’ widget, which appears when readers visit the site, was compromised — seamlessly redirecting visitors from certain organizations to another site where their computers could be infected with malware without their knowledge.

“Researches have linked similar malware controlled by the same server used in the Forbes attack to breaches of Web sites frequented by domestic Chinese dissident groups.

“Forbes acknowledged the incident. “On December 1, 2014, Forbes discovered that on November 28, 2014, a file had been modified on a system related to the Forbes web site,’ the outlet said in a statement to The Post. ‘The file was immediately reverted and an investigation by Forbes into the incident began. Forbes took immediate actions to remediate the incident.’ The news outlet’s investigation found ‘no indication of additional or ongoing compromise nor any evidence of data exfiltration,’ according to the statement.

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Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.

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