{"id":297309,"date":"2022-09-18T16:26:19","date_gmt":"2022-09-18T10:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nagalandpost.com\/?p=297309"},"modified":"2022-09-18T16:26:20","modified_gmt":"2022-09-18T10:56:20","slug":"chinese-spy-convicted-with-help-from-icloud-backup-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2022\/09\/18\/chinese-spy-convicted-with-help-from-icloud-backup-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese spy convicted with help from iCloud backup: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Chinese spy carrying out industrial espionage against GE Aviation and Honeywell&#8217;s aerospace division was caught with the help of access to an iCloud backup of his iPhone, media reports say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The data obtained included a never-before-seen copy of a security form used by the Chinese security service when recruiting spies, citing Bloomberg, 9To5Mac reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Xu Yanjun, an officer in China&#8217;s Ministry of State Security (MSS) was arrested and brought to trial in the US after investigators lured him out of the country to a meeting in Belgium, from where he was extradited to the US.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As per the report, the executive summary is that China targeted academics and engineers working on aerospace projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The arrest of Yanjun proved a much bigger deal than the FBI had expected, the report said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The data was accessible because, although iCloud backups are encrypted, they don&#8217;t use end-to-end encryption. This means that Apple holds the key, and can hand over data to law enforcement on receipt of a court order.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The documents obtained included one the FBI had never seen before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Chinese spy carrying out industrial espionage against GE Aviation and Honeywell&#8217;s aerospace division was caught with the help of access to an iCloud backup of his iPhone, media reports say. The data obtained included a never-before-seen copy of a security form used by the Chinese security service when recruiting spies, citing Bloomberg, 9To5Mac reported. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":297330,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[688],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-297309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-infotainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}