Hacker Recruited by PLA Then Reappears in Private Sector #shorts

And the last one uh the last example is Tan Daling who who actually uh went at university with funded his own hacker group and um he participated to a cyber security competition um and he was identified by the PLA recruited for a training program. Um then he was arrested by the Ministry of Public Security and in 2009 and probably during that time worked for the Ministry of uh state security in exchange for commuting in sentence. And then we see him reappear in the private sector where he funded uh um many cyber security IT companies uh between uh 2010 and 2020. And uh in 2019 uh US indictments uh linked some of his firms to strategic

intelligence gathering uh activities against uh dissident uh journalists and foreign government entities. This.