The Justice Department announces that four Chinese military officers have been indicted with hacking the credit company Equifax in 2017.
5:46Attorney General William Barr announced the indictment of the hackers responsible for the Equifax cyber breach.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.
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