The US Justice Department accused two Chinese hackers of stealing information from firms developing a COVID-19 vaccine on Tuesday, while also stealing millions of dollars worth of trade secrets from large companies.
China has now taken its place, alongside Russia, Iran and North Korea, in that shameful club of nations that provide a safe haven for cyber criminals in exchange for those criminals being ‘on call’ to work for the benefit of the state, here to feed the Chinese Communist party’s insatiable hunger for American and other non-Chinese companies’ hard-earned intellectual property, including COVID-19 research,” said Assistant Attorney John Demers in a statement released on Tuesday.
Officials do not believe the hackers were able to obtain any sensitive information related to coronavirus research, though prosecutors say the accused snooped around a computer network from a Massachusetts biotech firm, as well as a firm from Maryland.
China was the first country to produce tests for coronavirus, though they have been heavily criticized for their transparency throughout the pandemic.
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