A Chinese businessman has been sentenced to nearly four years in prison for conspiring to export sensitive military information to China after accessing the computer systems of U.S. defense contractors.
The U.S. Attorney's Office says Su Bin was sentenced to 46 months in prison in federal court on Wednesday. He had faced 30 years in prison before reaching a plea agreement with prosecutors in March.
The 51-year-old Bin pleaded guilty to conspiring with two unnamed hackers in China to export U.S. military information to the communist nation between 2008 and 2014.
Court records say the men targeted fighter jets such as the F-22 and the F-35, as well as Boeing's C-17 military cargo aircraft program.
Su was arrested in Canada in 2014 and brought to the U.S.
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