"After initial investigations when the group widened it research it found that the China-based cyber espionage had hacked computer systems of embassies of India, Pakistan, Germany, Indonesia, Thailand, South Korea and many other countries.
In all, the hackers had gained access to 1,295 computer systems of foreign ministries of many countries, including Bhutan, Bangladesh, Latvia, Indonesia, Iran, and the Philippines, the researchers said.
After gaining access to foreign government and private computer systems, the hackers installed malware to exercise control over these computer systems to access any documents."
Reason for war....in times past.
Then again, taking an embassey hostage was too, once.