Chinese man behind US hacks back to teaching computing in Shanghai

[TomSea]

Chinese man behind US hacks back to teaching computing in Shanghai

    Yu Pingan, who spent 18 months in a San Diego detention centre, had pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit computer hacking
    The 39-year-old is now teaching computer courses at Shanghai Commercial School, a state-run vocational technical high school

Reuters
Published: 10:50pm, 24 Dec, 2019

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Yu Pingan, who spent 18 months in a San Diego federal detention centre, had pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit computer hacking. A high school instructor, he had been arrested at Los Angeles International Airport in August 2017 upon arriving with a group of teachers to observe a US university. A Reuters reporter found him teaching at his old school in Shanghai last month.

Read more at: https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3043451/chinese-man-behind-us-hacks-back-teaching-computing

Just might be the biggest actual threat to our well-being, China.  But great that he's back to work! 

[sneakypete]

This has been going on for decades.  I noticed a Chinese man mailing out LOTS of envelopes to China while attending a university here in the US in the 1980's. He was obviously stealing and copying computer and engineering data and text books,and sending them to China. I reported it to the postal authorities,and they told me "there is nothing we can do about it unless you can prove a crime has been committed".

We gave them the rope,and now they are going to hang us with it.

[Elderberry]

Exclusive: Malware broker behind U.S. hacks is now teaching computer skills in China

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-usa-cyber-exclusive/exclusive-malware-broker-behind-us-hacks-is-now-teaching-computer-skills-in-china-idUSKBN1YS0UI

Yu specializes in computer network security and programming, according to court records. The malware he provided in the conspiracy included a rare software tool called Sakula that granted hackers remote control over computers. It’s unclear who authored the malware or how Yu obtained it.

Sakula has been linked to some of the most notorious cyber attacks of the decade. In addition to the intrusions detailed in the case against Yu, these include hacks of U.S. health insurer Anthem Inc, where millions of patient records were exposed, and the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, in which the personal information of millions of current and former U.S. government employees and contractors was compromised. Yu wasn’t accused of involvement in those two breaches.

In addition to jail time, Yu was ordered to pay nearly $1.1 million in restitution to five companies that were victims of the hacking. The fine was to be paid in installments of $100 a month, with no interest, according to the judgment. The payment schedule would take more than 900 years to complete.

Jeremy Warren, a San Diego criminal defense attorney who represented Yu, said: “With a Chinese national, a school teacher, there’s no real expectation of payment.”

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