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          US Judge Sentences Chinese National in Military Hacking Case

   by VOA News

   A U.S. judge on Wednesday sentenced a Chinese national to 46 months in
   prison for conspiring to hack into the computers of major American
   defense contractors and smuggling the information to China.

   Su Bin pleaded guilty of conspiring with two unnamed hackers in China
   to export U.S. military information to the communist nation from
   October 2008 to March 2014.

   "Su assisted the Chinese military hackers in their efforts to illegally
   access and steal designs for cutting-edge military aircraft that are
   indispensable to our national defense," said John Carlin, assistant
   attorney general for national security.

   Su told his co-conspirators -- military officers in China -- whom to
   target, which files to steal and why the information they stole was
   significant.

   Court records say the men targeted fighter jets such as the F-22 and
   the F-35, as well as Boeing's C-17 military cargo aircraft program.

   Su was arrested in Canada in 2014 and brought to the U.S. He had faced
   30 years in prison before reaching a plea agreement with prosecutors in
   March.
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