General Electric (GE), (JNJ), (DIS), (GOOG), Among Companies Hacked in 2010

According to a Bloomberg report released today, major companies like General Electric (NYSE:GE), Disney (NYSE:DIS), Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ), DuPont (NYSE:DD) and Sony (NYSE:SNE) experienced serious hacks into their networks in 2010, saying they were similar to the one Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) got hit with.

Information in emails from security firm HBGary were culled to gather the data, which had performed an investigation into the attacks.

At the time of the Google attack, tech companies such as Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) and Adobe Systems (NASDAQ:ADBE) said they had also been under attack.

According to the Bloomberg report, the attacks were “industrial espionage by hackers based in China, Russia and other countries.”

None of the companies have revealed the nature or extent of the attacks, so it's not clear what impact it had on the firms, although normally they report if it could effect the share price of the company, an din cases of material impact, they're required to report the consequences.