{"id":2205793,"date":"2024-03-25T16:05:03","date_gmt":"2024-03-25T20:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chinese-nationals-charged-with-hacking-senior-staffers-for-2020-presidential-campaign\/"},"modified":"2024-03-25T16:11:52","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T20:11:52","slug":"chinese-nationals-charged-with-hacking-senior-staffers-for-2020-presidential-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chinese-nationals-charged-with-hacking-senior-staffers-for-2020-presidential-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese citizens accused of hacking senior officials during the 2020 Presidential Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fchinese-nationals-charged-with-hacking-senior-staffers-for-2020-presidential-campaign%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2205793&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Seven Chinese nationals were accused by \u200bthe Justice Department of targeting American journalists, political figures, and members of a 2020 presidential campaign\u200d team in a wide-ranging hacking operation. These individuals,\u200c tied to a Chinese-backed hacking group,\u200c allegedly conducted espionage activities on behalf of China&#8217;s Ministry of State Security. The scheme involved surveillance\u200c of various groups, including Hong\u200d Kong \u2064democracy activists and the Uyghur\u200c people as per the indictment. <br \/> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Seven Chinese nationals on Monday were accused by the Justice Department of targeting American journalists and political figures, including senior members of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-pays-for-growing-army-of-staff-to-deflect-hunter-biden-probe\/\" title=\"Biden Admin Pays for Growing Army of Staff to Deflect Hunter Biden Probe\">2020 presidential campaign team<\/a>, in a wide-ranging hacking operation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The defendants, Ni Gaobin, Weng Ming, Cheng Feng, Peng Yaow, Sun Xiaohui, Xiong Wang, and Zhao Guangzong, are accused of aiding a Chinese-backed hacking group in support of China\u2019s Ministry of State Security\u2019s foreign political and business espionage as well as surveillance of Hong Kong democracy activists and the Uyghur people. The seven allegedly worked for the Hubei State Security Department, which surveilled thousands of American politicians, academics, journalists, and businessmen from 2010 to 2024, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/03\/24-cr-43_indictment_redacted.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">indictment<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThese allegations pull back the curtain on China\u2019s vast illegal hacking operation that targeted sensitive data from U.S. elected and government officials, journalists and academics; valuable information from American companies; and political dissidents in America and abroad. Their sinister scheme victimized thousands of people and entities across the world, and lasted for well over a decade,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-edny\/pr\/seven-hackers-associated-chinese-government-charged-computer-intrusions-targeting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> U.S. Attorney Breon Peace.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">During one operation during the Trump administration that lasted from June to September 2018, hackers targeted Republican and Democrat senators from more than 10 states, White House officials, members of the Departments of Justice, Commerce, Treasury, and State, and members of Congress with malicious emails, the indictment said. These emails were reportedly also sent to the spouses of some of the political figures.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In a different operation, multiple European politicians were targeted, including members of the European Union and more than three dozen parliamentary accounts in the United Kingdom, as part of surveillance into a group of politicians examining threats from the Chinese Communist Party.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">During the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/did-president-trump-spring-a-trap-on-treasonous-democrats-on-election-night\/\" title=\"Did President Trump Spring a Trap on Treasonous Democrats on Election Night?\">2020 presidential election cycle<\/a>, a non-specified campaign was targeted by hackers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cIn or about May 2020, the Conspirators began targeting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/microsoft-targeted-by-hacking-group-backed-by-chinese-government\/\" title=\"Microsoft Targeted By Hacking Group Backed By Chinese Government\">email accounts<\/a> belonging to several senior campaign staff members for a presidential campaign,\u201d the indictment says. \u201cIn or about November 2020, the Conspirators sent emails containing tracking links to targets associated with additional political campaigns, including a retired senior U.S. government national security official.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1700760801843000&#038;usg=AOvVaw2PQrVSrJfhxNb4LcARqniG\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The DOJ said in a press release that campaign staffers for Republicans and Democrats had been targeted ahead of the 2020 election but did not specify the campaigns or races.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The indictment also said that millions of Americans were caught up in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/judge-finds-shocking-malpractice-at-law-firm-that-threatened-free-beacon\/\" title=\"Judge Finds \u2018Shocking\u2019 Malpractice at Law Firm That Threatened Free Beacon\">hacking scheme<\/a>, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-republicans-move-to-obtain-covid-phone-records-between-walensky-and-weingarten\/\" title=\"House Republicans seek COVID phone records of Walensky and Weingarten.\">phone call records<\/a>, cloud storage accounts, and email accounts all being exposed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cAmerica\u2019s sovereignty extends to its cyberspace,\u201d Peace added. \u201cToday\u2019s charges demonstrate my Office\u2019s commitment to upholding and protecting that jurisdiction, and to putting an end to malicious nation state cyber activity.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Justice Department accused seven Chinese nationals of targeting American journalists and political figures, including senior members of a 2020 presidential campaign team, in a broad hacking operation. The defendants, including Ni Gaobin, Weng Ming, Cheng Feng, Peng Yaow, Sun Xiaohui, Xiong Wang, and Zhao Guangzong, are allegedly connected to a Chinese-backed scheme<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":200,"featured_media":2205794,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/03\/GettyImages-2100335185.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2205793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/03\/GettyImages-2100335185.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2205793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/200"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2205793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2205793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2205794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2205793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2205793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2205793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}