US authorities said that Chinese citizens Li Xiaoyu and Dong Jiazhi had been engaged in cyber espionage for many years, including
The hackers were charged with conspiracy tocommission of cyber fraud and theft of trade secrets. According to the prosecutor's office, cyber intruders could act both in their own interests and on behalf of the special services and the PRC authorities.
And China has now taken a place in this shameful clubcountries such as Russia, Iran and North Korea, which provide shelter to cybercriminals in exchange for working for these states; in this case (they were given asylum - IF) to satisfy the Chinese Communist Party's greedy hunger for the hard-earned intellectual property of American and non-Chinese companies.
Jonah Demers, Assistant Attorney General for National Security
According to prosecutors, hackers within tenyears, in addition to the United States, other countries were attacked: Australia, Belgium, Germany, Japan, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Spain, South Korea, Sweden and the UK. In particular, they managed to steal information about weapons, medicines and source codes for various software.
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