database to steal a large amount of data on the military and aircraft as stated by the Justice Department on Friday. This Chinese Hacker is deemed to be the businessman Su bin in collaboration with two undercover Chinese agents, who spent years of collecting data about the Boeing from the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Although the investigation department did not say anything about the involvement of Chinese government in this attack or about any classified information getting stolen from this attack.
In the previous months as well, US military database was affected by the Chinese hackers which resulted in the leaking of the confidential information about the government employees. For this attack the justice department condemned 5 Chinese official for breaking in the US steel, Westing House electric and other big companies to hack the data.
During the investigation of the hack, it was found out that Mr. Bin is a businessman and the owner of the Chinese aviation company Lode Tech having its offices even in Canada. But he is now under arrest and expected to have a hearing by the end of the month.
According to the spokesman of Justice Department, Marc Riamondi, the cyber theft has become a major threat to the country by the government has made it clear that it will take all measures within its access to strengthen cyber security and punish the cyber-crimes severely.
The cyber hacking has been going on for a long time now as disclosed by Edward snowden as well that NSA has been breaching the privacy of the users for a long time so yes this is high time for the government of USA to control the hacking as efficiently as possible to gain trust of their people.
