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US Slams China For Corporate Cyber Espionage, Indicts Two Spies (reuters.com)

U.S. authorities on Thursday unveiled indictments against two Chinese nationals linked to China's government who took part in a cyber spying campaign that hacked a range of American government agencies and corporations and violated a 2015 pact, escalating tensions between the two nations. From a report: The U.S. Justice Department charged Zhu Hua and Zhang Jianguo in computer hacking attacks on the U.S. Navy, the space agency NASA and businesses in numerous sectors. The defendants hacked computers to steal intellectual property and confidential business and technological data, according to the indictment. U.S. and British authorities on Thursday also condemned China for violating 2015 agreements to curb cyber espionage for business purposes, slamming Chinese efforts to steal other countries' trade secrets and technologies and to compromise government computers.

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  1. Re:Isn't this common? by DNS-and-BIND · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What are we going to steal from China, anyway? The best methods of poisoning infants with plastic additives? Why would you say it's equal when they have nothing we want? Moreover US spies stick out like a sore thumb in China.

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