Armed Forces News

A Chinese citizen was sentenced to four years in prison July 14 for stealing information from U.S. defense contractors. Su Bin, also known as Stephen Su and Stephen Subin, had pleaded guilty in a Los Angeles federal courtroom to participating in a conspiracy to hack defense contractors’ computer networks in March. According to the U.S. Justice Department, Su conspired to steal information regarding “C-17 strategic transport aircraft and certain fighter jets produced for the U.S. military.” He was arrested in Canada two years ago and consented to be extradited to the U.S. in February. Su admitted to passing along information regarding contractors to his co-conspirators, specifying which companies they should target and the types of data they to which they could gain access. Su also was fined $10,000, according .