Chinese hackers charged with cyber attacks by US court


(MENAFN) US court has charged three Chinese individuals with hacking attacks targeting international corporations, although they haven't been arrest and their whereabouts are yet to be clear.

Based on the indictment, Moody's Analytics, Siemens and GPS maker Trimble were the targets of the hack done by the three who are said to be in charge of a cyber security firm in China.

The three hackers were identified in the Federal indictment as Wu Yingzhuo, Dong Hao and Xia Lei, the location of their firm is in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou. The indictment also indicated that they launched "co-ordinated and unauthorised" cyber attacks between 2011 and 2017, the attacks included acts of stealing sensitive information.

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