US Judge Sentences Chinese National in Military Hacking Case

A U.S. judge on Wednesday sentenced a Chinese national to 46 months in prison for conspiring to hack into the computers of major American defense contractors and smuggling the information to China. Su Bin pleaded guilty of conspiring with two unnamed hackers in China to export U.S. military information to the communist nation from October 2008 to March 2014. “Su assisted the Chinese military hackers in their efforts to illegally access and steal designs for cutting-edge military...

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