Indictment: justice.gov/opa/press-rele…
Victims in U.S., Australia, Germany, Japan, U.K., and 6 other countries.
They also targeted a CA firm making testing kits.
On one occasion, the MSS officer allegedly gave one of the defendants a zero-day exploit for a web browser to help him hack a human-rights group.
“This type of economic coercion is not what we expect from a trusted world leader. It is what we expect from an organized criminal syndicate.”
Guess you could say the Hanford Site knows what a mess looks like.
Demers says that not only does the breach need to be remediated, but the research data needs to be verified to ensure the hackers didn't tamper with it. All of this slows down the work, he says.