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Federal prosecutors in San Diego announced on Monday the indictment of four Chinese men accused of a massive, years-long computer hacking campaign that targeted businesses, research institutions and universities in San Diego and abroad.
The two-count indictment said the hack was coordinated by the Ministry of State Security and deployed a series of front companies created to mask the involvement of the government of the Peoples Republic of China.
The indictment outlines an investigation that began as early as 2012 and eventually grew to included 19 separate entities including the National Institutes of Health, government agencies in Cambodia and Saudi Arabia, and eight companies in the U.S., Switzerland and Germany.