Spiegel reports that Chinese hackers have targeted computer networks operated by the German government. “German security officials managed to stop the theft of 160 gigabytes of data which were in the process of being siphoned off German government computers,” the magazine reports. And Chancellor Merkel, who is currently in China, apparently raised the issue with Chinese prime minister Wen Jiabao.

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