NEW YORK -- The U.S. has indicted four members of the Chinese People's Liberation Army in the 2017 attack on credit reporting agency Equifax's computer systems, which authorities say compromised personal information for nearly half of all Americans in one of the nation's largest data breaches.
The nine charges covering wire fraud, computer fraud and economic espionage allege that Wu Zhiyong, Wang Qian, Xu Ke and Liu Lei broke into Equifax's systems and stole the personal data of 145 million Americans. The U.S. Justice Department announced the indictment Monday.
