The Full Story of the Stunning RSA Hack Can Finally Be Told
By Andy Greenberg
Published: 2021-05-20 · Archived: 2026-04-05 16:39:21 UTC
In 2011, Chinese spies stole the crown jewels of cybersecurity—stripping protections from firms and government
agencies worldwide. Here’s how it happened.
Illustration: Eduardo Ramón Trejo; Getty Images; Alamy
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Amid all the sleepless hours that Todd Leetham spent hunting ghosts inside his company’s network in early 2011,
the experience that sticks with him most vividly all these years later is the moment he caught up with them. Or
almost did.
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Andy Greenberg is a senior writer for WIRED covering hacking, cybersecurity, and surveillance. He’s the author
of the books Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency and Sandworm: A New
Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers. His books ... Read More
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