"I got a very strong sense that was not their goal," he said. "They expressed a much stronger interest in financial information."
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The intruders were prolific in their purloining, snatching files including configurations for the oil companies' control systems, but Dmitri Alperovitch, vice president of threat research for McAfee, said they didn't appear to be trying to figure out how to blow up a pipeline or destroy equipment.
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