Five Chinese PLA officers (Peoples Liberation Army) have been indicted from the U.S. Justice Department. The charge they were facing is espionage for economic and trade purposes The five soldiers are members of the PLA unit known as Unit 61398, which was raised to the headlines early last year. The unit was mentioned in a report by cybersecurity firm Mandiant as responsible for cyber attacks on US government facilities, banks and companies. Robert Gates, former Minister of Defense, says the threat comes not only from China.”]
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