The United States accuses Chinese hackers targeting government opposition

US Prosecutors accused 12 Chinese citizens to be part of the Hack scheme allegedly sold the information of the opposition in the United States.

According to the Justice Department (DOJ), “state-funded by the state” was also targeted by the Treasury Department (DOJ), including the treasury.

Hackers also targeted a religious organization in America, and it was stated that a newspaper in Hong Kong.

China has not responded to these special claims, but in the past has decreased other charges.

Treasury Department in December reported a “basic” violation The Chinese said they were able to enter workers’ workstations and some undesigned documents.

At that time, China rejected any of the “unfounded” and called “unfounded” and said, “Hackingin opposes all forms.”

It is not known when charged with the latest DOJ – but they were not opened in the Federal Court in Manhattay on Wednesday.

Among those paid were two officers of the Chinese Ministry of Public Security.

The DOJ said that the hackers that appeared to represent a private company, which soon accused Chinese agencies between 10,000 and 75,000 dollars for each “exploited” e-mailbox.

Allegedly, the Ministries of China and their initiative were “computer interventions were conducted” and “handed manually for the stolen information.”

“Today, we are exposed to Chinese government agents in the world, directing and promoting careless attacks and illustrated attacks,” Sue J Bai, led by DOJ’s National Security Department.

“We will continue to struggle to dismantle this ecosystem of cyber hires and protect our national security.”

No additional information about the opposition in the targeted USA.

The religious organization hit by the hackers was described as “previously sent missionaries to China and was clearly critical of the PRC government.” PRC is short for the People’s Republic of China.

Hong Kong newspaper was also listed. Although not the name, the statement said that this was considered to be “as opposed to the PRC government.”

In addition to the US agencies, the hackers were said to target foreign ministries of Taiwan, India, South Korea and Indonesia.

In October last year, the FTB and the Infrastructure Safety Agency told Hacks that targeted two major US President’s campaigns “Actors related to the People’s Republic of China” were carried out.

Previously last year, Seven Chinese citizens were charged With a hack operation that lasts for at least 14 years and targeting Chinese external critics.

The operations of Western governments to China have targeted the British election commission and the British and New Zealand parliaments.