In the United States, four Chinese accused of stealing identity of half of Americans

U.S. Attorney General William Barr accused four citizens of the People's Republic of China of computer hacking the American bureau of credit stories Equifax and stealing the identity of almost half of Americans, the U.S. Department of Justice reported on February 10. According to him, the crime was committed by the Chinese armed forces. This is an organized and blatant criminal theft of the personal information of almost half of U.S. citizens, the results of heavy labor and intellectual property of an American company, carried out by a unit of the Chinese armed forces, said William Barr. In the United States, it is alleged that Chinese citizens U Zhiyong, Wang Qian, Xu Ke, and Liu Lei, involved in this computer hack, are employees of one of the research institutes of the People's Liberation Army of China. They are accused of stealing the identity of 145 million U.S. citizens, particularly names, birth dates and social insurance numbers.