Cybercrime

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The US charged four Chinese military about the great cyber-attack on the credit-rating giant Equifax.

More Than 147 million Americans were affected, in the year 2017, when hackers stole sensitive personal data such as names and addresses.

a number of British and Canadian customers were also affected.

China has not denied the allegations and insisted that it is involved in cyber-theft.

the announcement of the indictment on Monday, Minister of justice, William Barr called the hack "one of the largest data breaches in history".

According to court documents, The Four - Wu Zhiyong, Wang Qian , Xu Ke and Liu Lei are allegedly members of the People's Liberation Army's 54th Research Institute , a component of the Chinese military.

she spent weeks in The Company is to break into the security of the networks and steal the personal data, the documents said.

The nine-count indictment also accuses The Group of stealing trade secrets, including data collection and database design.

Chinese foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang denied the accusations of a ride on Tuesday, and said China ' s government, the military, and personnel - "nits never in the cyber-theft of trade secret".

He said that China was itself a victim of cyber-Crime , surveillance and monitoring by the United States, reports Reuters.

The whereabouts of The Four suspects is unknown, and it is very unlikely that you will stand up in court in the United States.

FBI-Deputy-Director, David Bowdich , said: "We can not take you to take you into custody, try them in a court of law and you - "

blocks of What happened in the year 2017?

Equifax, said hackers access to The Information , between mid-may and the end of July 2017, if The Company before the injury.

The Accused allegedly transport up to 34 servers, redirected in almost 20 countries, to try to hide their true location.

The FBI released the wanted image of The Suspects

The credit-rating company holds data on More Than 820 million users, and information about 91 million company.

Mr Bowdich said there was no evidence, so far as the data will be used to hijack a person's Bank account or credit card.

Equifax CEO Mark Begor said in a statement that The Company was grateful for The Investigation .

"It is reassuring that our U.S. law enforcement authorities to treat Internet Crime , in particular state-sponsored Crime with the seriousness it deserves. "

critics have accuses The Company of failure, you take to guard the right steps, information, and long waits to inform The Public about the hack.

Richard Smith , CEO of Equifax in the time of the hacking, resigned a month after the injury. He apologized for The Company for the delays and testify in Congress.

Equifax was a $700m (£541m) resolution of the Federal Trade Commission forced to pay.

The U.S. regulator alleged that the Atlanta-based company has no reasonable steps to protect its network. At least $300m from The Settlement went in the direction of paying for Identity Theft services and other expenses advance by the victim.

"This was a deliberate and far-reaching intervention into the private data of The American people.

"Today, we hold the PLA Hacker responsible for their criminal actions, and we remind the Chinese government that we have the ability to remove The Internet cloak of anonymity, and they find the Hacker, the nation always begins to run against us. "

This is not the First Time the US has charged members of the Chinese military with hacking U.S. companies.

The First indictment came back in 2014 and contributed to an offer in The Following year, to curb, to try such an activity.

the feels But clear to US that there is a need to increase The Weapon to The Public charges, you again.

The United States are increasingly nits concerned only with the alleged theft of economic intelligence, but also intelligence risks.

Equifax was one of a series of major data breaches, coupled with China other health care providers, and, essentially, the theft of data from The Office of Personnel Management, the sensitive data records for almost all Federal employees.

One of the concerns for US is the safety of the officials, as Chinese spies may be able to put together these huge databases on US citizens.

officials say the data could be used to create "targeting packages", the definition of which persons are to have access to sensitive information and potential vulnerabilities, which would allow you to. They add that, although, that, so far they have not seen the Equifax information will be used for this purpose have.

china, united states, computer hacking

Source of news: bbc.com