China’s Cyberspies Outwit Model for Bond’s Q

A defense contractor faced repeated hacks from Chinese spies who gained access to terabytes of confidential data, Bloomberg reports. More security tools could help, and the government could do more to protect itself.

“We found traces of the intruders in many of their divisions and across most of their product lines,” said Christopher Day, until February a senior vice president for Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ)’s Terremark security division, which was hired twice by QinetiQ to investigate the break-ins. “There was virtually no place we looked where we didn’t find them.”