Chen Ping
The investigation revealed a potential member of the unit under the alias “cpyy”. Several emails that used this alias were registered to a person name Chen Ping. On a personal blog on 163.com, it lists this persons employment as either military or police, it also lists his birth date as 25th May 1979. The same page also had posts in an IT category, whilst related a separate blog linked to Chen Ping indicated he had either studied or worked on networking or programming from 2002 to 2003. This report also pointed to several images on their personal sina.com blog that said they had attended Shanghai Jiao Tong University, a university that allegedly is targeted for recruitment into the PLA. In addition, several other posts suggested he was a member of the PLA, from photos with PLA uniforms in the background. In a personal blog Chen Ping listed his work as military, whilst in a different blog, a post said “Soldier’s duty is to defend the country, as long as our country is safe, our military is excellent.”, suggesting that Chen held nationalistic ideals that would encourage one to join the armed forces. This blog also states that Chen Ping lived in Shanghai from 2005 to 2007. However, this page was last updated in 2007 before being taken down following the release of Crowdstrikes report.