On October 25 2012 the New York Times (NYSE:NYT) published the results of an investigation into the vast wealth accumulated by Prime Minister Wen Jiabao’s family. A short time later AT&T (NYSE:T) notified the paper that it “had noticed behavior that was consistent with other attacks believed to have been perpetrated by the Chinese military.” That behavior lasted for the next four months. A forensic analysis discovered the Times’ computers had been initially hacked on September 13 when the reporting for the Wen articles “was nearing completion.” Hackers infiltrated the e-mail account of the Times’ Shanghai bureau chief David ...