The U.S. Department of Justice on Monday announced charges against four members of China’s People’s Liberation Army for allegedly hacking into credit reporting agency Equifax and stealing personal information that affected some 145 million Americans. The charges mark an escalation in the U.S. government’s long-running pressure campaign to hold alleged Chinese state-sponsored hacking to account. “The scale of the theft was staggering,” Attorney General William Barr said Monday, adding that the Chinese hackers, “invaded the privacy of many millions of Americans,” stealing credit card information and Social Security Numbers. The four officials — Wu Zhiyong, Wang Qian, Xu Ke, and Lieu Lei — are said to work for the PLA’s 54th Research Institute, which is part of Chinese military. The defendants allegedly exploited a vulnerability in the Apache Struts software to gain persistent access to Equifax’s network. The 2017 breach of Equifax, and the company’s lax security measures, infuriated members of Congress […]
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