US Slams China For Corporate Cyber Espionage, Indicts Two Spies

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.

Isn't this common?

[ranton]

I would have figured this was a very common incident, with the US routinely catching Chinese spies and China routinely catching US spies. It's not like any large countries don't practice espionage. Is this just public relations and politics or is catching spies really that rare?

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[Anonymous Coward]

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[Anonymous Coward]

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[AmiMoJo]

Just anti-China propaganda to drum up support for tariffs and other bullshit.

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[AmiMoJo]

I'm not a big fan of IP. The US is just as bad as China IMHO, it's just that it goes about it differently. Ridiculously long copyrights that steal from the public domain, DRM and the DMCA that steals from consumers, corrupt and unreasonable patent system...

Re:Isn't this common?

[DNS-and-BIND]

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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[ShanghaiBill]

China does far more corporate espionage on America than America does on China. The is obviously because we are technological leaders and they want to catch up. We spy less because they have less that we want.

Also, it is a matter of opportunity. There are far fewer Americans in China than there are Chinese in America. Leading tech companies in America are filled with foreign nationals. At many meetings in Silicon Valley, I am the only white guy in the room. In China, it is uncommon for a foreign nation

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[rtb61]

Did you know every criminal act by an American outside of the USA, is actually a criminal act of the US government, they are all linked to the US government, provable, they are citizens. Of course no member of the CIA or NSA or FBI etc has ever, committed a criminal act overseas.

Things are competitive the globe over, sure the government of China will do stuff, less than the US or it's corporations but also individuals in China will commit criminal acts in the rest of the world, regardless of who they are m

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[DNS-and-BIND]

LOL without the US alliance, Australia would be a colony of China. Check that, a colony of Indonesia. Australian navy is weak and it wouldn't take much for Indonesia to offload double the population of Australia in a boatlift. Indonesia wouldn't even notice they'd gone. You're welcome for the free US Navy protection. Ungrateful assholes.

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[ranton]

Do you mean CIA operatives? Because CIA assets would things like cars, property, etc.

In intelligence, assets are persons within organizations or countries being spied upon who provide information for an outside spy. They are sometimes referred to as agents, and in law enforcement parlance, as confidential informants, or "CIs" for short (source [wikipedia.org]).

Well thats about 30 years late

[Crashmarik]

China has been pulling this crap as far back as I can remember

You gotta ask if nothing else why wasn't something done when China hacked the government Office of Personnel Management

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]

Pot calling kettle black?

[hackingbear]

So how do the Americans actually figure out the real names of the two hackers without either hacking and spying China? It is not that hackers like to leave their real name around.

Or maybe they should be charged with selling WMDs to Iraq instead. That would foll us to spend a couple trillion dollars last time.

Two Chinese cyber spying stories on the front page

[najajomo]

Two Chinese cyber spying stories on the front page, what gives, is slashdot trying to become the Faux News of the internet?

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