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Anonymous ID: 6a0e05 Feb. 11, 2020, 1:12 a.m. No.8100036   🗄️.is 🔗kun

https://m.jpost.com/Breaking-News/Syrian-government-seizes-Aleppo-highway-for-first-time-since-2012-monitor-617217

Anonymous ID: 6a0e05 Feb. 11, 2020, 1:14 a.m. No.8100039   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0045 >>0166 >>0179

Google HR chief Eileen Naughton steps down after 20,000-strong worldwide staff walk out over multi-million dollar hush money payments to sex-scandal hit execs saw organizers fired

 

By Ross Ibbetson For Mailonline and Afp

08:58 GMT 11 Feb 2020 , updated 08:59 GMT 11 Feb 2020

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7990339/Google-HR-chief-steps-20-000-strong-worldwide-staff-walkout-sex-scandal.html

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Anonymous ID: 6a0e05 Feb. 11, 2020, 1:32 a.m. No.8100074   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0085 >>0166 >>0179

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Monday, February 10, 2020

Chinese Military Personnel Charged with Computer Fraud, Economic Espionage and Wire Fraud for Hacking into Credit Reporting Agency Equifax

 

Indictment Alleges Four Members of China’s People’s Liberation Army Engaged in a Three-Month Long Campaign to Steal Sensitive Personal Information of Nearly 150 Million Americans

 

A federal grand jury in Atlanta returned an indictment last week charging four members of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) with hacking into the computer systems of the credit reporting agency Equifax and stealing Americans’ personal data and Equifax’s valuable trade secrets.

 

The nine-count indictment alleges that Wu Zhiyong (吴志勇), Wang Qian (王乾), Xu Ke

(许可) and Liu Lei (刘磊) were members of the PLA’s 54th Research Institute, a component of the Chinese military. They allegedly conspired with each other to hack into Equifax’s computer networks, maintain unauthorized access to those computers, and steal sensitive, personally identifiable information of approximately 145 million American victims.

 

“This was a deliberate and sweeping intrusion into the private information of the American people,” said Attorney General William P. Barr, who made the announcement. “Today, we hold PLA hackers accountable for their criminal actions, and we remind the Chinese government that we have the capability to remove the Internet’s cloak of anonymity and find the hackers that nation repeatedly deploys against us. Unfortunately, the Equifax hack fits a disturbing and unacceptable pattern of state-sponsored computer intrusions and thefts by China and its citizens that have targeted personally identifiable information, trade secrets, and other confidential information.”

 

According to the indictment, the defendants exploited a vulnerability in the Apache Struts Web Framework software used by Equifax’s online dispute portal. They used this access to conduct reconnaissance of Equifax’s online dispute portal and to obtain login credentials that could be used to further navigate Equifax’s network. The defendants spent several weeks running queries to identify Equifax’s database structure and searching for sensitive, personally identifiable information within Equifax’s system. Once they accessed files of interest, the conspirators then stored the stolen information in temporary output files, compressed and divided the files, and ultimately were able to download and exfiltrate the data from Equifax’s network to computers outside the United States. In total, the attackers ran approximately 9,000 queries on Equifax’s system, obtaining names, birth dates and social security numbers for nearly half of all American citizens….