FBI documents made public on December 30, 2014, revealed that Ms Xiafen “Sherry” Chen, an employee of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) office in Ohio, was charged with illegally accessing the Army’s National Inventory of Dams (NID) and stealing sensitive infrastructure data from an Army Corps of Engineers database. The database was reported to have been compromised by Chinese hackers in 2013 as part of covert efforts by Beijing to gather sensitive information on critical U.S. infrastructure for possible use in a future conflict. Xiafen “Sherry” Chen was in regular email contact with Jiao Yong, an official of the Ministry of Water Resources in Beijing, since May 2012, after the two met in Beijing.
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