{"id":188858,"date":"2015-12-02T19:46:10","date_gmt":"2015-12-03T03:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=188858"},"modified":"2021-09-14T20:37:17","modified_gmt":"2021-09-15T03:37:17","slug":"china-says-u-s-opm-hack-not-state-sponsored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2015\/12\/china-says-u-s-opm-hack-not-state-sponsored\/","title":{"rendered":"China Says U.S. OPM Hack Not State-Sponsored"},"content":{"rendered":"
In an English-language news report<\/a>\u00a0about high-level cyber-talks between China and the US<\/a>, Chinese state-run Xinhua news agency announced that an investigation into last year’s massive data breach at the Office of Personnel Management<\/a>\u00a0(OPM) has identified criminal hackers instead of state-sponsored agents as the culprits<\/a><\/strong>. The personal data of more than 20 million current and former federal employees were stolen in the breach, which cybersecurity analysts and anonymous U.S. officials have attributed to the Chinese Ministry of State Security. Over the past year and a half, the agency has reportedly taken on operations<\/a> traditionally carried out by the People\u2019s Liberation Army. At Reuters, Paul Carsten and Mark Hosenball report:<\/p>\n China’s official Xinhua news agency said on Wednesday an investigation into a massive U.S. computer breach last year that compromised data on more than 22 million federal workers found that the hacking attack was criminal, not state-sponsored.<\/p>\n In an article about a meeting in Washington between top U.S. and Chinese officials on cyber security issues, Xinhua said the breach at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) was among the cases discussed.<\/p>\n The report did not give details of who conducted the investigation or whether both U.S. and Chinese officials agreed with the conclusion. [Source<\/a><\/strong>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n