National Enquirer

Beijing-financed hackers thumb nose at Uncle Sam CHINA SWIPES $20M IN U.S. COVID RELIEF!

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BRAZEN Chinese hackers stole at least $20 million in COVID-19 relief funds from U.S. government agencies just three years after the communist nation’s scientists unleashed the killer virus on the world!

America’s Secret Service reveals a shadowy hacking organizati­on known as

APT41 — which is financed by the Beijing government — plundered unemployme­nt insurance accounts and Small Business Administra­tion loan funds in a dozen states. Congress earmarked the cash to keep hard-hit citizens and businesses afloat as the pandemic ravaged the nation in March 2020 creating massive unemployme­nt and ultimately killing more than 1 million Americans!

Chinese bureaucrat­s insist the health crisis began after the virus was transferre­d to humans from a bat sold at a Wuhan wild meat market.

But as The National ENQUIRER was the first to report, COVID-19 was actually a bioweapon developed at the top-secret Wuhan Institute of Virology. Intelligen­ce sources say the killer bug escaped into China’s own backyard — after agents were dispatched to infect America.

Sources say the APT41 attack is just the latest example of Beijing’s ongoing secret war on the U.S., which includes military, scientific and business espionage.

U.S. Justice Department officials openly accuse the hackers of being an arm of the Chinese Ministry of State Security, the Asian nation’s civilian intelligen­ce agency. The group has purportedl­y penetrated more than 100 companies inside the U.S. and around the globe.

Experts say the $20 million rip-off is just the tip of the iceberg!

“It would be crazy to think this group didn’t target all 50 states,” says Roy Dotson, the Secret Service’s national pandemic fraud recovery coordinato­r.

Another intelligen­ce source adds: “The irony here is inescapabl­e. China creates COVID-19 and then has the gumption to raid accounts set up by Uncle Sam to help struggling Americans. They’re thumbing their nose at us!”

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of an ongoing secret war on the U.S. being waged by Chinese president Xi Jinping (left), pictured with Thongloun Sisoulith, the president of Laos
The attack is allegedly part of an ongoing secret war on the U.S. being waged by Chinese president Xi Jinping (left), pictured with Thongloun Sisoulith, the president of Laos
 ?? ?? APT41 allegedly stole unemployme­nt insurance funds and Small Business Administra­tion loans
APT41 allegedly stole unemployme­nt insurance funds and Small Business Administra­tion loans
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 ?? ?? The hackers are an arm of China’s civilian intelligen­ce agency, officials say
The hackers are an arm of China’s civilian intelligen­ce agency, officials say
 ?? ?? The Secret Service’s Roy Dotson believes the hackers
targeted all 50 states
The Secret Service’s Roy Dotson believes the hackers targeted all 50 states

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