"One participant said they were 'surprised at the extent of the compromise and did not immediately comprehend why information on personal relationships and dome

"One participant said they were 'surprised at the extent of the compromise and did not immediately comprehend why information on personal relationships and domestic politics would have been so useful to the Chinese'." Apparently this "participant" was born yesterday. Bribery, blackmail, coercion - just to name three reasons. This story does not surprise me in the least. I once worked for an Australian federal agency and discovered that another federal agency's external facing web-server(s) had been compromised. I notified their IT department immediately but heard nothing back. It was running a PHP CMS (of course).