The national media missed the point of the federal indictment against the Chinese hackers. This did not come out of Pittsburgh just because the companies were here. This came out of Pittsburgh because the guys behind the investigation and prosecution are Pittsburghers. The best line of my story on the FBI’s top investigator is that his father was a steelworker. This is personal. Those of us who grew up here get that.
Hundreds of other U.S. companies have been hacked by the Chinese military officials accused in a federal indictment of breaching Pittsburgh-area companies, the FBI’s top cyber investigator told the Tribune-Review.
But the attacks were much broader than those described in the indictment and have gone on for years, said J. Keith Mularski, the FBI’s supervisory special agent in charge of cyber crime, who led the investigation from Pittsburgh.
A grand jury indictment unsealed on Monday charges five Chinese military
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