credit reporting company in 2017 and stealing the personal information of nearly 150 million Americans, the Justice Department said Monday.
The nine-count indictment says that the four officers exploited a vulnerability in Equifax's online dispute portal to conduct surveillance on the company’s network and then steal login credentials in what was one of the largest data breaches in history. The hackers managed to spend several weeks inside Equifax collecting data while avoiding detection, the indictment says.
"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," Attorney General William Barr said. Each of the defendants faces counts of conspiracy to commit economic espionage, wire fraud and economic espionage, among other charges.million to settle federal and state probes — with $425 million set aside for affected customers.Tom Winter is a New York-based correspondent covering crime, courts, terrorism and financial fraud on the East Coast for the NBC News Investigative Unit.
what_speed BREAKING: The GOP hires 4 Chinese military hackers onto its election team.
Wow is Barr finally doing his job ?
What about the MILLIONS Trump is STEALING From 🇺🇸
barr has finally done something in his job I mean other than protect the worlds biggest criminal
Can we extradite them for a Trial
Wish they helped some ppls credit 😑
TMassimus But Russian hacking is fake news. MAGAtt AG Barr to the rescue.
Why does this sound suspicious? Is it the timing of it? I bet we see more arrests of this kind! Making it look like it was all because of Moron Trump!
Really...What a great job the Trump administration is doing...🤣🤣🤣🤣
so do we have them in custoday?
Network intrusion, is never good and Equifax needs better security for firewall interface, and more competent Administrators to handled the Network Security at Equifax.
Why was Equifax not fined into non-existence for their gross negligence in protecting our data?
Friends of the Biden’s?
BREAKING NEWS OF THE FUTURE: it was discovered that Barr rounded up 4 Asian Americans to cover for Russian hacking efforts.
Good to see that DOJ finds time to work for the people.
Sanction China!!!
Now let's see arrests in the election hacking.
Although this sounds like you taking an interest in something that extends beyond protecting Trump's ass, we still see you as a Trump lackey, first & foremost! We aren't fooled! You are an epically compromised AG who has turned your back on America to protect an impeached POTUS!
Ah! Him?
So when does the investigation into election interference begin?
DOJ certainly has its priorities. 🙄
That is half the US population! Can we get a new social sec number please?