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Chinese hacker sent to jail for stealing US air defence secrets
LOS ANGELES: A Chinese national was sentenced to three years and 10 months in prison for hacking American defence contractors to steal trade secrets on Beijing’s
LOS ANGELES: A Chinese national was sentenced to three years and 10 months in prison for hacking American defence contractors to steal trade secrets on Beijing’s behalf.
Su Bin, 51, who went by the names Stephen Su and Stephen Subin, was also ordered by a federal judge here on Wednesday to pay a $10,000 fine.
Su had admitted in a plea agreement with US authorities to conspiring with two unnamed militaryofficers in China to try to acquire plans for F-22 and F-35 fighter jets and Boeing’s C-17 military transport aircraft.
According to court documents, the trio managed to steal sensitive data by hacking into the computer networks of major defense contractors and sent the information to China. Su, who ran a China- based aviation and aerospace company from Canada, was arrested in July 2014 and after waiving extradition was transferred to the United States to face charges.
“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,” prosecutor Eileen Decker said in a statement.
According to court documents, Su travelled to the US at least 10 times between 2008 and 2014, working with his co-conspirators to steal the data.
