Five members of an alleged Chinese hacking group have been indicted for their role in a scheme to hack into more than 100 companies in the U.S., the Justice Department announced Wednesday.
Two Malaysian businessmen have been taken into custody in a separate indictment and charged with helping those hackers profit from intrusions into the video gaming industry, the Justice Department said.
The FBI says that the hackers, part of a group known as “APT41,” were allowed to operate by the Chinese government, who the U.S. says has made no effort to curb the hacking activities of their own citizens.