I've read a few differing stories about this incident.

One of the figures I've heard quoted is that US systems get scanned or attempted compromises 300million times a day, that's a lot of background noise to pick through to find the right answer.

Whilst it is entirely possible that all of these (this and recent) attacks are coming from China, if I (UK citizen) wanted to hit the US systems I might just find myself an unpatched XP machine on a Chinese IP for a jumping point. 'yup, it's the Chinese again, incident closed?

My question from reading this story that I haven't found an answer to so far is, is there evidence to suspect the Chinese in this incident of is it merely Wold's believe due to his aiding of Chinese dissidents?


Of course there is no other way the Chinese officials coud have found out who was living there....

China is becoming a very handy scapegoat at the moment, until there is any evidence one way or another I'd suggest that the attacks are a side-effect of being connected to the internet...

I wonder if they were a victim of a targeted attack by a Chinese hacker or if they weren't careful about what email attachments they opened so they ended up with a Trojan that just happened to be reporting back to a Chinese server/IP address.

True it is impossible to 'proove' beyond a doubt... just about anything on the net.  It's that amazing cloud of anonymity that has confounded and frustrated many attempts at prossecution.  Of course, that is chainging slowly.  None the less, regardless of whether this specific case is China sanctioned or known; there seems to be a rather epidemic problem with ones that are more obviously known to be.   A site I check out once in a while, is: http://www.thedarkvisitor.com/

It has some interesting articles. 

Quite true.  My bosses are FINALLY getting into encryption after the couple VA (Vetrans Ass) issues.  We're still deciding on hardware (seagate) vs software encryption.