WASHINGTON, Aug 28 (Reuters) – U.S. officials are backpedaling on claims that several government agencies were hacked by Chinese spies, now saying that the organizations were among the hackers’ targets.
In a freshly edited statement, the Justice Department said Friday that the U.S. Senate, the Federal Reserve, NASA, and others were “among the targets of QTFY,” a Chinese spy platform that officials called out on Thursday.
A previous version of statement released on Wednesday said the government agencies had been among the hackers’ victims.
(Reporting by Raphael Satter, Editing by Franklin Paul)
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