American think-tank hack linked to Chinese hackers

Last month the New York-based Council on Foreign Relations (one of the US’s most prestigious think tanks) was attacked by a group of hackers.

The attack aimed to compromise the computers of the website’s high-profile clientele, which includes high-level politicians, powerful businessmen (and humble Shanghaiist writers).

The hack was believed to be carried out by the Elderwood Group, a China-based hacker coalition that has previously targeted Google, Tibetan- and Uyghur-rights groups, Amnesty International, Taiwanese travel sites, and other pages seen to be “anti-China.”