Security News > 2020 > February > Equifax Breach is the Latest of Many Hacks Linked to China
The latest in a string of China-linked hacking incidents came with the Monday indictment of four members of the Chinese military for breaking into the credit-reporting agency Equifax in 2017.
The motives, as with several others hacks that preceded it, appear to be more about espionage than stealing trade secrets, cybersecurity experts say.
Among other things, experts who monitor the dark web say they have seen no evidence of data stolen in the Equifax hack - or in an earlier breach of Marriott - being sold to common criminals for ID theft and credit card fraud.
A House inquiry said the hack was likely the work of "Deep Panda," a group linked to the Chinese military.
Two members of a hacking group operating from China were later indicted in the biggest health care hack in U.S. history.
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