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Equifax: US Charges Four Chinese Military Officers Over Huge Hack

posted by martyb on Tuesday February 11 2020, @12:50AM   
from the Funder-of-identity-protection-services dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

Equifax: US charges four Chinese military officers over huge hack:

The US has charged four Chinese military officers over the huge cyber-attack of credit rating giant Equifax.

More than 147 million Americans were affected in 2017 when hackers stole sensitive personal data including names and addresses.

[...]Announcing the indictments, Attorney General William Barr called the hack "one of the largest data breaches in history".

According to court documents, the four are allegedly members of the People's Liberation Army's 54th Research Institute, a component of the Chinese military.

They spent weeks in the company's system, breaking into security networks and stealing personal data, the documents said.

The nine-count indictment also accuses the group of stealing trade secrets including data compilation and database designs.

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• Re:*yawn* (Score: 5, Informative) by krishnoid on Tuesday February 11 2020, @01:49AM

  by krishnoid (1156) on Tuesday February 11 2020, @01:49AM (#956657)

  Or when Barr admits that "Getting the Imperial Senate to swear an oath to act as impartial jurors while stating publicly that they wouldn't" was "one of the biggest governmental hacks in history".

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