The Internet security firm Mandiant suspects that the white 12-story building photographed yesterday in a northern suburb of Shanghai, China, is the home of a People’s Liberation Army-led hacking group.
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China’s army controls hundreds if not thousands of virulent and cutting-edge hackers, according to a report issued yesterday by a US Internet security firm that traced a host of cyberattacks to an anonymous building in Shanghai.

Mandiant said its hundreds of investigations showed that groups hacking into US newspapers, government agencies, and companies “are based primarily in China and that the Chinese government is aware of them.”