Security News > 2020 > September > Chinese Hackers 'Stole Data From Spanish Vaccine Labs': Report
Chinese hackers have stolen information from Spanish laboratories working on a vaccine for Covid-19, El Pais newspaper reported Friday.
Speaking to journalists on Thursday, Esteban who heads the CNI intelligence services, said there had been a "Qualitative and quantitative" increase in attacks during lockdown, with hackers targeting "Sensitive sectors such as healthcare and pharmaceuticals".
Most attacks were carried out by hackers from China and Russia, often from state organisations, but also by criminal organisations and universities who trade in hacked data, security sources said.
The attack in which Spanish data were stolen was launched by Chinese hackers, they said.
In July, a court in the US state of Washington charged two Chinese nationals with stealing terabytes of data from hundreds of computer systems all over the world, in some cases on behalf of Chinese government agencies.