China Spy Breach: US IT Secrets Exposed

A 59-year-old specialist from Florida has been sentenced to 4 years in prison for transferring confidential information to Chinese intelligence. Pin Li, a US citizen, pleaded guilty to conspiring to work as an agent of China’s Ministry of State Security (MSS). The investigation revealed that the data transfer had been ongoing since 2012.

Having worked at Verizon for 20 years before moving to one of India’s largest IT companies, Infosys, Li faced accusations of fulfilling MSS requests by providing information on Chinese dissidents, democracy supporters, and members of the religious group

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