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Chinese hacker jailed for theft of sensitive US aerospace data
CHINESE national Su Bin has sentenced to 46 months in jail by a US court after admitting to assisting Chinese military hackers in their efforts to illegally access and steal designs on the Lockheed F-22 and F-35 aircraft, along with Boeing's C-17 cargo plane.
The aviation expert worked with two members of China's military to attack networks of Boeing and US and European defence contractors in order to steal sensitive military and export-controlled data.
The trio stole gigabytes of data between October 2008 and March 2014 on 32 US projects, including what investigators believed was 220MB relating to the F-22, along with some claimed 630,000 digital files relating to the C-17 cargo plane that amounted to 65GB of data, The Register, a London tech site.
Bin pleaded guilty in March to one count of conspiring to gain unauthorised access to a protected computer and to violate the Arms Export Control Act by exporting defense articles on the US Munitions List contained in the International Traffic in Arms Regulations, according to the Department of Justice.
Commenting on the sentence, National Security Assistant Attorney General John Carlin said: "Su Bin's sentence is a just punishment for his admitted role in a conspiracy with hackers from the People's Liberation Army Air Force to illegally access and steal sensitive US military information.
The aviation expert worked with two members of China's military to attack networks of Boeing and US and European defence contractors in order to steal sensitive military and export-controlled data.
The trio stole gigabytes of data between October 2008 and March 2014 on 32 US projects, including what investigators believed was 220MB relating to the F-22, along with some claimed 630,000 digital files relating to the C-17 cargo plane that amounted to 65GB of data, The Register, a London tech site.
Bin pleaded guilty in March to one count of conspiring to gain unauthorised access to a protected computer and to violate the Arms Export Control Act by exporting defense articles on the US Munitions List contained in the International Traffic in Arms Regulations, according to the Department of Justice.
Commenting on the sentence, National Security Assistant Attorney General John Carlin said: "Su Bin's sentence is a just punishment for his admitted role in a conspiracy with hackers from the People's Liberation Army Air Force to illegally access and steal sensitive US military information.
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