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NOAA Employee Charged With Computer Breach Met Senior Chinese Official in Beijing

Posted on January 6, 2015 by Dissent

Bill Gertz reports:

A federal weather service employee charged with stealing sensitive infrastructure data from an Army Corps of Engineers database met a Chinese government official in Beijing, according to court documents that reveal the case to be part of an FBI probe of Chinese economic espionage.

Xiafen “Sherry” Chen, an employee of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) office in Ohio, was arrested in October and charged in a federal grand jury indictment with illegally accessing the Army’s National Inventory of Dams (NID).

Read more on Washington Free Beacon.


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