China People’s Liberation Army Indicted for Stealing 145 Million Americans’ Data In Equifax Hack
China’s depths of its reach on the world stage has been repeatedly brought to light in the last week. With the coronavirus reaching outbreak levels surpassing SARS, learning of Chinese spies at Harvard and other elite educational institutes, and now we learn China was responsible for the Equifax hack. Just today the Justice Department charged four members of China’s People’s Liberation Army’s 54th Research Institute of stealing personal data of 145 million Americans. In 2017, the credit-reporting giant Equifax was hacked and compromised nearly 150 million Americans’ personal information. In a press conference earlier today, Attorney General William Barr said,