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Story of Phillip Ingram | Chinese LinkedIn Espionage Game

A recent report from The Times from the UK discloses how Chinese Intelligence agents are using LinkedIn as a platform of choice for stealing state secrets. For this, China mainly does recruitment of civil servants, defence contractors and military officials. The report quotes Phillip Ingram, a former military intelligence officer as saying that the Chinese intelligence had attempted to recruit him via LinkedIn. Ingram was used to such approaches as he was a former colonel whose expertise included specialist cyber-intelligence work and knowledge of chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear weapons. This is his story!