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Heard on NBC that Justice Dept expected to issue indictments as early as this week:
Pompeo says China hacked Marriott
By ERIC GELLER
12/12/2018
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo confirmed today that the Chinese government hacked Marriott and potentially stole the information of up to 500 million people.
Chinese government hackers “have committed cyberattacks across the world,” Pompeo said on “Fox & Friends.”
Also this morning, at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Chinese hacking, Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said China is responsible for "over 90 percent of cyber-enabled economic espionage in the United States. Reports issued this year by the White House Office on Trade and Manufacturing, the U.S. Trade Representative and ODNI all report detailed findings on China’s role as a prime cyber-attacker and thief of American intellectual property and technology."
Those comments come one day before multiple Trump administration agencies are expected to blame China for a long-running campaign of hacks that includes the Office of Personnel Management and Anthem breaches. Both are part of what U.S. intelligence officials believe is an attempt by Beijing to amass dossiers on Americans susceptible to recruitment as double agents.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/12/12/pompeo-says-china-hacked-marriott-1059172
Pompeo says China hacked Marriott
By ERIC GELLER
12/12/2018
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo confirmed today that the Chinese government hacked Marriott and potentially stole the information of up to 500 million people.
Chinese government hackers “have committed cyberattacks across the world,” Pompeo said on “Fox & Friends.”
Also this morning, at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Chinese hacking, Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said China is responsible for "over 90 percent of cyber-enabled economic espionage in the United States. Reports issued this year by the White House Office on Trade and Manufacturing, the U.S. Trade Representative and ODNI all report detailed findings on China’s role as a prime cyber-attacker and thief of American intellectual property and technology."
Those comments come one day before multiple Trump administration agencies are expected to blame China for a long-running campaign of hacks that includes the Office of Personnel Management and Anthem breaches. Both are part of what U.S. intelligence officials believe is an attempt by Beijing to amass dossiers on Americans susceptible to recruitment as double agents.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/12/12/pompeo-says-china-hacked-marriott-1059172
