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Hacked in the U.S.A.: China’s Not-So-Hidden Infiltration Op

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Some investigators suspect the attacks were part of a sweeping campaign to create a database on Americans that could be used to obtain commercial and government secrets.
“China is building the Facebook of human intelligence capabilities,” said Adam Meyers, vice president of intelligence for cybersecurity company CrowdStrike Inc. “This appears to be a real maturity in the way they are using cyber to enable broader intelligence goals.”
The most serious breach of records occurred at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, where records for every person given a government background check for the past 15 years may have been compromised. The head of the government personnel office, Katherine Archuleta, resigned Friday as lawmakers demanded to know what went wrong.
By mid-2014, it became clear that the hackers were stockpiling health records, Social Security numbers and other personal information on Americans -– a departure from the country’s traditional espionage operations focusing on the theft of military and civilian technology.
But health-care, financial and work-related data has its own espionage value. It can be used in targeted intelligence operations to further penetrate vital U.S. networks or blackmail officials, said Representative Michael McCaul, a Texas Republican and chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee.
Security companies including FireEye and ThreatConnect Inc. say the tactics and technology used in the attacks point to hackers in China, which are consistent with Chinese government espionage. Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said last month that China was “the leading suspect.”
 

So far the hacks that appear to be connected include the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (which involved as many as 21.5 million people's records) and Anthem Health (which involved as many as 80 million people's records). Both of these hacks occurred months, if not years, before they were noticed. And they both resulted in the systematic hoovering of personal data.

 

 

 

Reminds of Covert Affairs. Maybe alien intelligence is looking for Samuel James "Sam" Witwicky also known as LadiesMan217

 

Source: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-07-14/tsipras-begins-to-sell-aid-terms-as-debt-outlook-worsens

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Not if the autobots get to him first!

 

It's too bad the movies went downhill from there.

 

 

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Why the news doesn't report NSA is actively hacking governments and corporations of other countries.

 

Or US hacking someone else is perfectly justified, while when Chinese hacks the US is evil????

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Why the news doesn't report NSA is actively hacking governments and corporations of other countries.

 

Or US hacking someone else is perfectly justified, while when Chinese hacks the US is evil????

 

Because they've found that our government's approval rating absolutely tanks once people realize that the combination of the US intelligence agencies and the US military have formed into the worlds most powerful terrorist organization. "You disagree with the US governments interests? Let's just hack into your country's network infrastructure and fire a few missiles for good measure. Anything goes when its in the name of national security!" Hypocrites. We are a society of hypocrites.

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It's like a game of chess. A game of chess where every poor motherf*cker except the players (China's, USA'S, etc. intelligence agencies) gets caught in the firing line.

 

Intelligent people called this in the 50s and 60s at the beginning of the cold war.

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Why the news doesn't report NSA is actively hacking governments and corporations of other countries.

 

Or US hacking someone else is perfectly justified, while when Chinese hacks the US is evil????

You say that as if the media in China tells their people they are hacking the US.

 

Why doesn't our "news" tell us this? Because "if you report on stories we don't like, you're a security threat, and you can't come to white house press conferences, or congressional press conferences, etc."

 

Our media is being controlled almost as much as China's is.

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