Titan Rain

As Titan Rain is from the U.S. government a sequence designated by Chinese hackers, which had the objective to obtain confidential information from the U.S. military or the armaments industry.

According to Spiegel, the hacker group has 20 people, according to information from the Times, which refers to a security expert named Shawn Carpenter, the attackers went to a recurring pattern before. They broke into the server.

In 2004, more than 79,000 attacks could be counted, of which 1300 attacks successfully. While most attacks could be classified as low risk, but the extent of damage, according to the Washington Post not yet been determined. According to heise Security " 3.2 of the Army and Air Force Redstone Arsenal, the headquarters of the Army Aviation and Missile Command, data on the mission planning system for Army helicopters, as well as the flight plan program Falco View copies " were from.