China blames hacking attack for recent Internet problems

Beijing

A HACKING attack using malware from overseas servers was to blame for Internet problems in China earlier this week that prevented users from accessing a number of popular foreign websites, an official state-run newspaper said on Friday.

Social media users first reported on Sunday that they were being sent to the software website wpkg.org and travel website ptraveler.com when trying to access news websites like cnn.com, news portal yahoo.co.jp, and games website runescape.com, among others.