US-China Cyber Spying Case Turns Spotlight on Shadowy Unit 61398

A tense stand-off between the United States and China over state-backed cyber espionage has dragged China's secretive hacking unit “61398” back into focus, after the military group was pinpointed last year for mounting cyber attacks on Western commercial targets.   U.S. authorities on Monday charged five Chinese military officers at the unit, accusing them of hacking into American nuclear, metal and solar firms to steal trade secrets. China on Tuesday summoned the U.S. ambassador...

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