State-sponsored hackers' are being blamed for compromising the popular alternative to Windows Notepad over a period of six months last year.

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The developer of the popular text editor Notepad++ said hackers associated with the Chinese government hijacked its software update mechanism to deliver tainted software to users for months.

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