BREAKING: 4 Chinese military hackers indicted in the US for allegedly hacking into Equifax and 'for stealing the sensitive personal information' of nearly 150,000,000 Americans, AG Barr announces.
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.
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