Beijing Accuses Washington of Stealing State Secrets
19 OCT 2025 09:47

Beijing Accuses Washington of Stealing State Secrets
19 OCT 2025 09:47
Technological and trade tensions between China and the US are gaining new momentum. Official Beijing has made harsh accusations, stating that the US National Security Agency (NSA) has carried out cyberattacks and stolen state secrets from China's National Time Service Center. This is a strategically important institution responsible for the country's high-precision time standards.
China's national security bodies claim that their investigation has yielded "irrefutable evidence." According to them, NSA employees, taking advantage of vulnerabilities in the mobile phones of some of the center's employees, were able to steal their account data. These credentials were then used to infiltrate the center's computers and obtain classified information.
The investigation showed that the cyberattacks were systematic and prolonged, starting as early as 2022. Their main targets were the center's internal network systems and the high-precision ground-based time synchronization system. To hide the real source of the attacks, the hackers used private servers located around the world to try to cover their tracks.
The National Time Service Center of China, located in the northwestern city of Xi'an, is a crucial national institution. It not only provides high-precision services to the government and various sectors but also provides important data for the calculation of international standard time, which makes its activities of vital importance.
These accusations come in response to numerous accusations by Western governments and companies against Chinese hackers. As Bloomberg emphasizes, this confrontation is unfolding against the backdrop of the ongoing deterioration of trade relations between the US and China, which once again testifies that the rivalry between the two superpowers is deepening in cyberspace.
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