The Department of Justice announced that four members of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army have been indicted for causing the 2017 data breach of Equifax that affected 145 million Americans.
The nine-count indictment alleges that the four 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.
Read on for more details about the two-year investigation into the Equifax breach.