CENTRE TIMES: …According to Provost Nick Jones, Penn State was made aware of the attacks Nov. 21, 2014, when the FBI alerted the university about an “outside entity attack.”…
“Based on our intelligence, we believe they are based in China,” Bennett said. When asked if that meant the Chinese government or individuals within China, he said they did not have that level of “granularity.” However, Bennett said that actor has been known to target intellectual property in the aerospace and defense industries.
Penn State is the recipient of millions of dollars in federal grant projects annually. The university has had four consecutive years topping $800 million in research across all of its programs and has recently touted that continued success despite economic downturns as a sign of confidence in the quality of research… (more)
