07/21/2020 - 15:37
- Clarín.com
- World
The Government of the United States filed this Mars charges against two Chinese "hackers" whomHe accuses of trying to steal data from the coronavirus vaccine from companies in at least 11 countries, including Spain, Germany and South Korea.
The two hackers, identified as Li Xiaoyu, 34, and Dong Jiazhi, 33, both residing in China, were charged with 11 criminal charges in a Washington state court. According to the case, they attacked 13 companies located in the United States and 12 companies abroad that were investigating a vaccine, one of the prosecutors involved in the investigation, William D. Hyslop, explained at a press conference.
In the brief, the prosecutors do not detail the names of these companies and simply make general descriptions.
For example, it is explained that one of the cyberattacks "was directed against a Spanish defense and electronics company" and that, in March 2020, Chinese pirates managed to steal approximately 900 gigabytes of information on technology for the civil and defense sector .
In total, according to Washington, the victims are located in at least 11 countries: the United States, Australia, Belgium, Germany, Japan, Lithuania, the Netherlands, South Korea, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom.
In the case of the United States, they attacked, among others, a company located in Massachusetts, whose name is not mentioned but that could be Modern , according to the complaint. In this company, the trials are among the most advanced, as it was the first to test its vaccine in humans.
On May 13, the FBI and another US intelligence agency already claimed in a report that Chinese "hackers" were attacking US research centers to steal information about the vaccines and treatments being tested .
Also, last week, the United Kingdom, the United States and Canada claimed that hackers linked to the Russian agency were trying to steal information about the vaccine, something that Russia denies.
All of this further strained the relationship between the United States and China, which blamed each other for the pandemic.
With information from EFE.
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