4:03The theft of personal names, birth dates, social security numbers and addresses may have been a state-sponsored crime, according to the Department of Justice.The Justice Department on Monday announced that four Chinese military officers have been indicted with hacking the credit company Equifax in 2017.
“It came to light in the summer of 2017, when Equifax announced the theft. The scale of the theft was staggering. As alleged in the indictment, the hackers obtained the names, birth dates, and Social Security numbers of nearly 150 million Americans, and the driver’s license numbers of at least 10 million Americans.
Deputy Director or the FBI David Bowdich said that none of the information stolen has been used maliciously.Wu Zhiyong, Wang Qian, Xu Ke, and Liu Lei face charges of computer fraud, economic espionage, and wire fraud for their role in one of the largest thefts of personally identifiable information by state-sponsored hackers ever recorded.
According to the indictment, “On or about March 7, 2017, Apache announced a vulnerability in certain versions of Apache Struts software that permitted unauthorized users to access the Apache Struts Web Framework and perform a remote code execution attack on a target web application.
Could we say this is a modern CyberWarfare attack from China to America ?!
Good to discover CCP’s evil deeds!
Was he also working in Diane Feinstein’s office. She had one for years.
Dun imprison them, a waste of taxpayers money n resources. Banish em, kivkvem out.
China is coming for y’all. BoycottChina
China declares war with US, but just in a different form, a modern cyber warfare
Credit card numbers, social security numbers, financial information and intellectual properties... Yep the Chinese spies have access to all of those!
Make the arrest now. chinazi
CCP is really trying so hard to infiltrate. Data or IP, there’s nothing they won’t steal, as long as their ambitions can get fulfilled. We should stop their aggression before it’s too late.
THIS can't be the truth... tRUMP says their president is his best buddy... LUNATIC lied again?🤦♂️🙄😡🇺🇸🇺🇸
The need to check transunion too. Stuff popping up on and off my report as I lay on the sofa.
All the Communist Chinese do is spy and steal and your Obama era 'Diversity' programs let them walk right in now the Trump admin & AG Barr have to clean up your left wing stupidity
Chinese Spies are everywhere~!!! antichinazi BoycottChina
You mean it's not the Russians, Russians, Russians.
This would've never happened under Obama's watch. Maybe if Trump could stay out of court long enough.
Well, whilst this may be a crime that should not go unpunished, it is poetic justice that Equifax got 'hacked' seeing as they have been hacking us for years.
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