Or did they? From the article ...<p>“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.”<p>...<p>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.&quot;<p>Sounds like they are just covering their tracks better. The most likely consequence, at best, would have been a Chinese Colonel was fired&#x2F;reassigned and replaced with a newly promoted technocrat who has been told not to be caught.<p>Business as usual ...