About 1,800 brand new 300-GB or 500-GB external hard drives made for Maxtor (Maxtor is now owned by Seagate) in Thailand were found to have Trojan horse malwares pre-installed (autorun.inf and ghost.pif). When the HDD was used, it forward information on the disk to two websites in Beijing, China (www.nice8.org or www.we168.org) Authorities believe the Chinese government is behind the Trojans and they wanted to spy on mass scale.

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