A Chinese company hired one of the defendants to build a database to store stolen intelligence about its competitors, a DOJ indictment says. The for-hire database project sheds some light on the operations of China’s most prolific hacking unit, APT1/Unit 61398. The indictment against Huang Zhenyu and his co-defendants contains 31 criminal counts, including ID theft, hacking, economic espionage, and theft of trade secrets. The charges carry prison sentences of five to 15 years each.”]

