Chinese hackers: No site is safe

ZHOUSHAN, China (CNN) -- They operate from a bare apartment on a Chinese island. They are intelligent 20-somethings who seem harmless. But they are hard-core hackers who claim to have gained access to the world's most sensitive sites, including the Pentagon.

The leader of these Chinese hackers says there "is always a weakness" on networks that allows cyber break-ins.

In fact, they say they are sometimes paid secretly by the Chinese government -- a claim the Beijing government denies.

"No Web site is one hundred percent safe. There are Web sites with high-level security, but there is always a weakness," says Xiao Chen, the leader of this group.

The sad thing about all of this...  its true.  No website is completely safe and if the front door is blocked "they" will find a back way in.  The part that confuses me is that while websites may get hacked there is rarely a direct link from that website to a local lan. 

So how are they downloading sensitive information?  I really doubt any site admin dumb enough to push sensitive information to a public webserver unless they had a good reason to, like are running a honeypot or loading trojan horses for tracking purposes.

Either way it really doesn't make too much sense as to why hackers/crackers target websites.

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