Ten Chinese Intelligence Officers, Hackers Indicted for Stealing Aerospace Tech

Collective charges against ten Chinese nationals have been unsealed on October 30 by the U.S. Department of Justice, accusing them of "repeated intrusions into private companies’ computer systems in the United States and abroad for over five years."

Zha Rong and Chai Meng are allegedly intelligence officers for the Jiangsu Province Ministry of State Security (JSSD), the foreign intelligence arm of the People’s Republic of China’s Ministry of State Security (MSS).

According to DoJ's press release, the MSS is supposed to be the organization responsible "for domestic counter-intelligence, non-military foreign intelligence, and aspects of political and domestic security."

As stated in the unsealed charges, the JSSD intelligence officers and a team of hired.