US Grand Jury Indicts Chinese Army Officers for Cyber Espionage

US Grand Jury Indicts Chinese Army Officers for Cyber Espionage: The US government today took the unprecedented step of charging five officers in the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) with 31 criminal counts of hacking and cyber espionage against six American companies.

The indictment handed down by a grand jury in the Western District of Pennsylvania charges that the six PLA officers with the infamous cyber Unit 61398 conspired to hack into private American companies to steal trade secrets and give unfair competitive advantage to Chinese state-owned companies.