4 Chinese Military Hackers Charged by United States

On Monday, Feb. 10, 2020, 4 members of a People’s Liberation Army, that is an arm of a Chinese military, have been charged with hacking into a Equifax credit stating agency’s mechanism network. They stole tens of millions of customers’ information. The 4 hackers are also indicted of hidden a company’s trade secrets, a Justice Department announced.

“Today, we reason PLA hackers accountable for their rapist actions, and we remind a Chinese supervision that we have a capability to mislay a Internet’s disguise of anonymity and find a hackers that republic regularly deploys opposite us. This was a counsel and unconditional penetration into a private information of a American people,” Attorney General William Barr pronounced in a press statement.

This is only one of a several cases that a Justice Department has brought opposite members of PLA. In 2014, a Obama administration charged 5 Chinese troops hackers for violation into a networks of vital American companies and siphoning trade secrets.

The hackers stole personal information including names and addresses from Equifax in 2017. Not all of a business were American, a United Kingdom and Canada were also affected.

By Sheena Robertson

 BBC: Equifax: US charges 4 Chinese troops officers over outrageous hack

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