China has dismissed as "groundless" India's charge of a hack attack originating from that country on computers in Indian government offices, including national security adviser MK Narayanan's office.

"These accusations are groundless," foreign ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu said in Beijing. "The Chinese government is firmly against hacking activities and will deal with relevant cases in accordance with law."

China, Ma claimed, was the "biggest victim" of hacking activities. Ma was responding to questions from newsmen on Narayanan's comments that Chinese hackers may have been behind a December 15 attempt to hack into sensitive Indian government computers.

Narayanan had said that the hack attack had taken the form of an e-mail with a PDF attachment that contained a Trojan virus, which would have allowed the hacker to seize remote control of Indian government computers and download or delete sensitive files, including those relating Omega Replica Watches to national security.

The Internet search engine giant Google last week went public with a sensational allegation that its servers had been subjected to a hack attack, originating from China, with the intention of accessing Gmail accounts of Chinese human rights activists. Google said it would also no longer comply with Chinese government orders to filter searches on its Chinese-language search engine and would consider shutting down its offices in China.

An Indian journalist for an Indian national newspaper is one of several foreign correspondents based in Beijing whose Gmail accounts had been hacked into and "hijacked". The journalist noticed earlier this week that the settings on his Gmail account had been changed to forward e-mails to another address he was unfamiliar with.

The Foreign Correspondents Club of China said on Monday that correspondents in a few bureaus in Beijing had discovered that their Gmail accounts had been hijacked. "Their e-mails were being forwarded to a stranger's address," it noted. On Tuesday, a foreign ministry spokesman said Google must, like all foreign enterprises in China, "adhere to China's laws and regulations, respect the interests of the general public and cultural traditions".

Credit:DNA Correspondent

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