[hugh]

State-owned China Telecom on Thursday rejected US claims that its servers "hijacked" highly sensitive Internet traffic on American government and military websites earlier this year.

A report presented to Congress Wednesday said the firm rerouted email traffic to and from websites of the US Senate, the Department of Defense, and "many others" including national space agency NASA for 18 minutes on April 8.

Full story

The rerouting began at a smaller Chinese Internet service provider called IDC China Telecommunication before being propagated by China Telecom, said the report, compiled by the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission.