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U.S. indicts Chinese military members in infamous Equifax breach
By: Andrew Wyrich - The Daily Dot News - 02-20-20
Re: https://www.dailydot.com/layer8/u-s-...quifax-breach/

Attorney General William Barr on Monday announced that the Department of Justice (DOJ) has charged four Chinese military members with allegedly hacking into Equifax in 2017, resulting in one of the largest data breaches in history.

Equifax, the credit reporting agency, said hundreds of millions of Americans had their data compromised after a breach in 2017. The information that was exposed included names, social security numbers, addresses, and more.

In a press conference on Monday, Barr said the “scale of the theft was staggering.” The DOJ alleges the hackers used a vulnerability in Equifax’s dispute resolution website and obtained login credentials that could be used to navigate the agency’s network.

“In short, this was an organized and remarkably brazen criminal heist of sensitive information of nearly half of all Americans, as well as the hard work and intellectual property of an American company, by a unit of the Chinese military,” Barr said in a statement released amid the announcement.

Barr said four people in the Chinese People’s Liberation Army—Wang Qian, Wu Zhiyong, Xu Ke, and Liu Lei—“are alleged to have conspired to hack Equifax’s computer systems and commit economic espionage.”

The four people are charged with three counts of conspiracy to commit computer fraud, conspiracy to commit economic espionage, and conspiracy to commit wire fraud. They were also charged with two counts of unauthorized access and intentional damage to a protected computer, one count of economic espionage, and three counts of wire fraud.

Officials said at the press conference that they have not seen evidence that the stolen information was being used.

About this writer: Andrew Wyrich is a politics staff writer for the Daily Dot, covering the intersection of politics and the internet. Andrew has written for USA Today, NorthJersey.com, and other newspapers and websites. His work has been recognized by the Society of the Silurians, Investigative Reporters & Editors (IRE), and the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ).
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