A secret unit of the Chinese military suspected of hacking

A secret unit of the Chinese military is suspected to be the cause of multiple hacking operations that targeted particular the United States, wrote the U.S. computer security firm Mandiant. Mandiant said in a report released Monday that the United States unit of 61398 Army of China, based in Shanghai, has been found guilty in 2006 of stealing "hundreds of terabytes of data from at least 141 companies in different sectors. "