{"id":11180,"date":"2014-05-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/cyber-operations\/indictment-of-pla-officers\/"},"modified":"2014-05-19T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-05-19T00:00:00","slug":"indictment-of-pla-officers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cfr.org\/cyber-operations\/indictment-of-pla-officers","title":{"rendered":"Indictment of PLA officers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In May 2014, the U.S. Department of Justice <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/pr\/us-charges-five-chinese-military-hackers-cyber-espionage-against-us-corporations-and-labor\">indicted<\/a> five members of the People\u2019s Liberation Army (PLA) Unit 61398, a Chinese army unit dedicated to cyber espionage. According to the Department of Justice, Unit 61398 compromised U.S. corporate networks for trade information potentially useful to Chinese <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.cfr.org\/cyber\/2015\/01\/05\/the-top-five-cyber-policy-developments-of-2014-the-doj-indicts-the-pla\/\">state-owned enterprises<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The PLA indictments were the most <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/05\/20\/us\/us-to-charge-chinese-workers-with-cyberspying.html\">direct confrontation<\/a> to date between Washington and Beijing regarding Chinese government sponsorship of hacking groups. It was the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/us-to-announce-first-criminal-charges-against-foreign-country-for-cyberspying\/2014\/05\/19\/586c9992-df45-11e3-810f-764fe508b82d_story.html?utm_term=.6fc6b6b8d90f\">first time<\/a> that the U.S. Department of Justice indicted state-sponsored actors, and was part of a broader effort by the United States to halt China\u2019s cyber industrial espionage programs and define an international norm against cyber espionage for commercial gain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In May 2014, the U.S. Department of Justice indicted five members of the People\u2019s Liberation Army (PLA) Unit 61398, a Chinese army unit dedicated to cyber espionage. According to the Department of Justice, Unit 61398 compromised U.S. corporate networks for trade information potentially useful to Chinese state-owned enterprises. 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