Or did they? From the article ... “For a period of time following the indictments, there was a very significant decrease” by the PLA, said a second U.S. offici

Or did they? From the article ... “For a period of time following the indictments, there was a very significant decrease” by the PLA, said a second U.S. official. “And today we are definitely not at the level that we were before the indictments.” ... The Unit 61398 hackers stopped their activity for a while, but other parts of the military continued their operations, and the Shanghai group eventually resumed using other tools, said an intelligence analyst at FireEye, which now owns Mandiant." Sounds like they are just covering their tracks better. The most likely consequence, at best, would have been a Chinese Colonel was fired/reassigned and replaced with a newly promoted technocrat who has been told not to be caught. Business as usual ...