IDC China Telecommunication has been accused of trafficking important data including that from US military and government websites, the contents of email messages or embedding viruses in computers across the globe in an 18-minute operation, as per the report, by the United States-China Economic and Security Review Commission

China's state-owned China Telecommunications re-routed the information, so as to make the US data pass through Chinese computer servers.

The data comprise information from the Senate, the Army, the Navy, the Marine Corps, the Air Force, the secretary of defense's office, NASA, the Department of Commerce and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and also from several American Companies, as according to the report.

But, the Chinese engineering managers are claiming that the misdirection was totally unintentional and happened due to some routing errors.

"Evidence related to this incident does not clearly indicate whether it was perpetrated intentionally and, if so, to what ends", said the commission in a report. But, it added that the security researchers believed that the incident could result into severe malicious activities.

There was an assumption that the China could have used the copy of an encryption master key to bungle the e-mails and commercial transactions, which are usually encrypted before being transmitted. Another possibility of China testing a cyberweapon to disrupt the internet has also been associated with the incident. But, no solid proofs are there to blame China.