Wall Street Journal, Washington Post disclose Chinese attacks

On Thursday afternoon, less than a day after the Times' story was posted online, its ideological rival the Wall Street Journal revealed that it, too, had been attacked by Chinese hackers.

On Friday, the Washington Post, ... was forced to admit that its networks had been penetrated for years.

The Journal provided fewer details than the Times, but said that "in the most recent incident," hackers had managed to break into computers in the Journal's Beijing bureau in mid-2012.

From there, the Journal said, the intruders were able to access the Journal's worldwide computer network.