Tokyo police suspect Chinese military behind cyberattacks

Case filed against Chinese Communist Party member engineer in Japan

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Police allege the suspect rented a number of computer servers and may have hacked into Japan's JAXA space agency. (Photo by Akira Kodaka)

Nikkei staff writers

TOKYO -- Tokyo Metropolitan Police filed a case on Tuesday against an engineer, who is a member of the Chinese Communist Party, for allegedly taking part in cyberattacks that targeted Japan's space agency JAXA and about 200 other Japanese companies and research institutions.

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