Chinese National Jailed for Hacking Defense Contractors
Posted by: Timothy Weaver on 07/15/2016 12:35 PM
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Su Bin, 51, who went by the names Stephen Su and Stephen Subin, a Chinese national was sentenced on Wednesday in Los Angeles to three years and 10 months in prison. He was convicted of hacking into American defense contractors to steal trade secrets on Beijing's behalf.
Along with the prison sentence, Bin was ordered to pay a $10,000 fine.
He pleaded guilty to conspiring with two unnamed military officers in China. The hacking target was plans for F-22 and F-35 fighter jets and Boeing's C-17 military transport aircraft.
Su was familiar with aviation as he ran a China-based aviation and aerospace company from Canada. He was arrested in July 2014.
Prosecutor Eileen Decker said: "Over the course of years, this defendant sought to undermine the national security of the United States by seeking out information that would benefit a foreign government and providing that country with information it had never before seen."
China considers him a hero. "On the secret battlefield without gunpowder, China needs special agents to gather secrets from the US," wrote an editorial in the Global Times, a nationalistic newspaper with close ties to the ruling Communist Party.
Source: Security Week[]
Along with the prison sentence, Bin was ordered to pay a $10,000 fine. He pleaded guilty to conspiring with two unnamed military officers in China. The hacking target was plans for F-22 and F-35 fighter jets and Boeing's C-17 military transport aircraft.
Su was familiar with aviation as he ran a China-based aviation and aerospace company from Canada. He was arrested in July 2014.
Prosecutor Eileen Decker said: "Over the course of years, this defendant sought to undermine the national security of the United States by seeking out information that would benefit a foreign government and providing that country with information it had never before seen."
China considers him a hero. "On the secret battlefield without gunpowder, China needs special agents to gather secrets from the US," wrote an editorial in the Global Times, a nationalistic newspaper with close ties to the ruling Communist Party.
Source: Security Week[]
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