China accused of sustained campaign of ‘cyber intrusions’

Two Chinese nationals have been charged in the US over theft of intellectual property

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The US and UK have publicly accused China of being behind a sustained cyber-campaign, targeting the large-scale theft of intellectual property from a number of nations around the globe.

Two Chinese nationals have been charged in the US in relation to the campaign, with accusations that they had been working “under the direction and protection of China’s main intelligence agency, the ministry of state security”, The Guardian says.

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