US Indicts 10 ‘Professional Hackers’ Accused of Working with the Chinese Government

Ten Chinese nationals have been charged with large-scale hacking of US and international victims at the direction of the Chinese government.

The US Justice Department has unsealed a two-count criminal indictment charging the defendants in connection with a years-long hacking scheme directed by the People’s Republic of China (PRC) through a “software company” identified as i-Soon.

The company’s employees were allegedly instructed to hack prominent overseas critics of the PRC government, people