Chinese-Backed Hackers Stole Millions In Covid Relief, Secret Service Says



According to a new Secret Service report, hackers linked to the Chinese government stole at least $20 million in Covid-19 relief funds, signaling the first reported instance of pandemic fraud connected to a foreign government. NBC News’ Ken Dilanian explains what the report alleges and how the U.S. is working to combat hackers in the future. 

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42 comments

  1. "(Foreign Thieves Absconded With) Millions In Covid Relief, Secret Service Says" so let's otherwise "Convince It Forward"

  2. Not surprised. China loves to steal everything. But– what about those secret service texts on jan 6th???

  3. What about Harvard? Wasn't Charles Lieber, a professor in the thousand talents program? Did he not set up labs in Wuhan? Didn't he receive grants from the NIH and Department of Defense? Did he receive millions of dollars from the Chinese government? Was he not smuggling live viruses in and out of the airports worldwide? Yes to all of the above. He only got five years and a fine, for lying to the FBI. The story was also buried by the media. Surprise, surprise.

  4. "(Foreign Thieves) Stole Millions In Covid Relief, Secret Service Says" so let's otherwise "Convince It Forward"

  5. I'm sure they did…alot of people did, but I've never received a single dime of covid relief.

  6. Did [C] Xi gas protesters for a photo op? Did [F] China shoot protesters like Rittenwho did?

    Does [G7] 1.1 million US Covid deaths seem [C] worth it? (Does it seem [G7] worth it?)

    [F] USA one million, one hundred and seven thousand, seven hundred and [C] ninety four [USA 1,107,794]

    [G7] China five thousand, two hundred and thirty [C] five (yeah [F] thirty [C] five). [China 5,235]

  7. IQ45: China, please steal the election for me while you are at it

  8. You can have mine, I didnt collect intentionally, and dont plan on it.

  9. Chinese backed means the CIA did it

  10. Trump let them steal it of course Not only China. But Republicans had their hand in the cookie jar

  11. Not surprising since that is where covid originated. Then brought over to usa 🇺🇸 and exposed us here.

  12. wow.. they telling us after Nov.8th.. lol

  13. Why don't the Secret Servive go right over to China and bring them in.

  14. 400 billion dollars, how can that be. America has to find every person involved and punish with jail time and/or death. Thats a lot of tax payers money.
    In United States IRS needs to flag anybody who's income dramatically increased during covid19 pandemic recovery for investigation. The states have to get involved also.
    Which states lost the most covid19 pandemic recovery funds?

  15. It's the Batman UFO. Anonymous. Wu Ming. When is somebody going to put an end to these devils? They are hacking EVERYTHING but are not caught. Wherever they put the "V" these are the devils. But the US seems to love supporting them, or, doesn't see how they are manipulating EVERY BIT OF US TECH INFRASTRUCTURE.

  16. Gov't really needs to hire better hackers to stop foreign hackers.. Gov't seems to have really poor cyber security.

  17. China always up to no good.

  18. They give u the virus and steal your money !! Wow

  19. And I’m over here paying a $25 unvaccinated fee every 2 weeks on my Cigna Health Insurance. While the Government’s losing millions in relief money.

  20. I bet 10% went to the Big Guy.

  21. Communist China… along with their comrades in Russia and North Korea

  22. Police & Sheriff's precincts funded criminals by using identity Fraud too. Whew wait til everyone finds out the CeeVee was actually proven to be man made which makes a lot of these higher authorities homebred domestic terrorists & in bed with foreigners to target Organic Americans- this was genocide on all levels.

  23. lol funny if your from usa & have no kids & no job you couldn't get any of them any way but someone in china can get it

  24. "(Foreign) Hackers Stole Millions In Covid Relief, Secret Service Says" so let's otherwise "Convince It Forward"

  25. Gov computers running on DOS!!!! lol!!!!!

  26. Politician stole hella more money why they pass it lol 😂

  27. What that means is the democrats stole millions with the help of their COVID relief packages they pushed through congress. Getting closer NBC. Maybe one day you all will grow a spine and report the truth again…… Ha

  28. So now tell me, how can the Americans not hate China? They steal intellectual properties and also the Chinese people who come to migrate here take advantage of what our government system offers in this country that they can't get back if they are in China

  29. The US government pinning it on the Chinese when the real money is am sure in their pockets
    What about the 2.3T dollars that disappeared on the day before 9/11 that couldn't be traced?
    The entire cost of the afghan war was 2.3T dollars but that was just the Chinese huh?

  30. Our government has zero accountability.

  31. And billions more in loans forgiven. It was a huge money grab.

  32. 400 billion dollars…..no wonder republicans didn't want any oversight

  33. PBS comments turned off, of course. Check out Dr. A. Huff's new book: "The Truth about Wuhan" Did Dr. R. Baric turn over the tech to create COVID-19 to the CCP at the P4 lab? Read and do tell. Did US govt and Big Pharma slaughter millions for profit and social control? Ask a Globalist. Why didn't Trump fire Fauci?

  34. I've been trying to warn everyone about China and their germ-warfare Covid x2 attempts, but no one listened. Now there's this, with more to come. If the GOP wasn't always just concerned about their own elections and did what's right for us people, this wouldn't have happened.

  35. 10% for the big◇little guy

  36. That happened under the Trump Administration he was responsible for that didn't he sign those checks to give everybody an impression that he was the one was giving away his money to the people when it wasn't it was taxpayers money

  37. Not really buying it … Easy to blame hackers…… Personally believe that money was pocketed ….. DOL tends to side with insurance companies on claims for what I hear…. So they are not be trust… What's next new TRACKING SYSTEMS for everybody except the people that's actually causing all these issuance … How about chip implants for everybody so hacker can hack that too

  38. NBC exactly how many of your reporters have you fired for reporting truth? If a NBC reporter were to do a report on the twitter cover up, which you were involved in, would you fire the reporter?

  39. Just.. upgrade the system plz. I mean, really? It cost alot of money? U can send money to Ukraine, and now our money are getting hacked by foreigner, these are the money we can use to improve our own domestic securities yo.
    🤦‍♀️🥴😵

  40. Joe Biden will get to the bottom of this. 😂