Explainer: How And Why Is China Hacking U.S. Firms?

For Internet security analysts, Monday’s announcement that the U.S. Department of Justice was charging members of China’s military with cyber-espionage hardly comes as a surprise.   Long before Washington began publicly complaining about hacking attacks coming from China, analysts have been tracking increasingly sophisticated efforts coming from somewhere in China to pry open and steal millions of secure data files from U.S. corporations, interest groups, media and even the...

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