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| FBI sounds alarm on rampant personal-data theft by China-backed hackers |
| 2020-09-22 |
| [WashingtonTimes] China is engaged in massive data mining in the United States and likely has stolen personal information on nearly half of the entire U.S. population, FBI Director Christopher Wray revealed this week. Chinese intelligence and government-linked hackers have conducted data collection operations, such as the 2017 theft of financial information on 150 million people from the credit bureau Equifax. Mr. Wray said in prepared congressional testimony that hackers compromised information on "nearly half of the American population and most American adults." "If you are an American adult, it is more likely than not that China has stolen your personal data," Mr. Wray told the House Homeland Security Committee on Thursday, adding the theft is "on a scale so massive that it represents one of the largest transfers of wealth in human history." Other Chinese data hacks over the past five years involved gaining access to more than 60 million records from the health care provider Anthem and more than 22 million records from the federal government's Office of Personnel Management, including very sensitive data gathered as part of security clearance probes. Of course, it is absurd to believe that Google, Apple, FaceBook and the US government could have this data without it ever leaking. |
| Posted by:Iblis |
| #4 "More chins than a Chinese phonebook" |
| Posted by: Frank G 2020-09-22 08:13 |
| #3 There are so many Wings and Wongs in China it's amazing that when calling each other they don't wing the wong number. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2020-09-22 07:57 |
| #2 25% of the Chinese population's named are Li, Wang, or Zhang so there you go. |
| Posted by: Vespasian Ebbereng3110 2020-09-22 04:31 |
| #1 Government + Microsoft = Piece of cake for our adversaries. |
| Posted by: Clem 2020-09-22 00:14 |