Monday, February 10, 2020

EDITORIAL_ China’s cyberattacks should make it a trade pariah

NEW YORK POST

OPINION  -  EDITORIAL


China’s cyberattacks should make it a trade pariah


By Post Editorial Board

February 10, 2020 | 7:03pm




Attorney General William Barr speaks during a news conference blaming the Chinese military for one of the largest hacks in history.
AP



Four members of China’s People’s Liberation Army now stand charged in the 2017 Equifax hack, one of the largest cybercrimes ever — and they were plainly working Beijing’s will, since they’re all members of a PLA unit dedicated to hacking.

In other words: China is waging cyberwar on the West even as it insists on being treated like a normal country.

The hack of one of the biggest US consumer-credit reporting agencies grabbed personal info on half the country: birthdates and Social Security numbers of 145 million and driver’s license info of 10 million, plus 200,000 stolen credit-card numbers.

And the danger goes far beyond the monetary, Attorney General William Barr noted in announcing the charges: “These thefts can feed China’s development of artificial intelligence tools, as well as the creation of intelligence targeting packages” — meaning industrial as well as regular-old espionage.

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