Chinese ‘hacker’ who obtained details of 78 million people is charged in US with ‘one of the worst data breaches in history’


This Thursday, May 9, 2019, photo provided by the FBI shows a wanted poster of Fujie Wang. The Justice Department says a grand jury has indicted Wang and another man identified only as John Doe for hacking into the computers of health insurer Anthem Inc. and three other, unnamed companies, in an indictment unsealed Thursday, May 9, 2019, in Indianapolis. (Federal Bureau of Investigation via AP)

A US federal grand jury on May 9 charged a Chinese national in a hacking campaign described by the Justice Department as “one of the worst data breaches in history”, an effort that yielded the personal data of 78 million people.

Wang Fujie, also known as Dennis Wang, and another individual in the indictment, are alleged to have infiltrated the US-based computer systems of US health insurer Anthem and three other companies, the Justice Department said in a statement on May 9.

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