Chinese steal American and French industrial secrets. Hacking operation in the aerospace sector

The United States has indicted 10 people of Chinese nationality, including two intelligence officers, on suspicion of stealing technology from US and French aerospace companies by hacking into their computers.

The indictment came 20 days after the Justice Department secured the unprecedented extradition of a senior Chinese intelligence official from Belgium to stand trial in the United States for attempting to steal industry secrets. US Air Force. The Justice Department said China's Ministry of State Security, through its Jiangsu Province unit, has engineered the theft of the technology behind a turbofan engine used in the US and European commercial airliners.

The companies were not named, but previous allegations pointed to Cincinnati, and specifically GE Aviation, one of the world's leading manufacturers of aero engines. The French Safran group, which worked with GE Aviation on engine development, has an office in Suzhou. The operation was made public in September, when the United States indicted a Chinese-American engineer for helping to steal the files under the direction of a senior official from the Jiangsu State Security Bureau.

The case has added to the growing tensions between Beijing and Washington over geopolitics, trade, hacking and corporate espionage. "For the third time since September, the National Security Division has sued the Chinese intelligence officers of the JSSD and those working at their direction and control for stealing American intellectual property," said Deputy Attorney General John Demers. "This is just the beginning. Together with our federal partners, we will redouble our efforts to safeguard America's ingenuity and investment. ” The FBI worked on the case together with the Directorate General for Homeland Security of France.

Chinese steal American and French industrial secrets. Hacking operation in the aerospace sector

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