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China Criticizes Pentagon’s Cyberattack Accusations

The Department of Defense issued a report on China’s military, which broke new ground by directly accusing the People’s Liberation Army of launching cyberattacks against U.S. government interests, the first time the U.S. government has made such a direct claim. In February, when information security firm Mandiant released a report linking the People’s Liberation Army to an active hacker group, the White House spoke out against, “cyberintrusions