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Security Firm: China Is Behind the OPM Hack

Game Over?

The U.S. government has been reluctant to pin blame for the massive espionage campaign. A leading cybersecurity company—relying on federal data—isn’t being so shy.

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Hackers “affiliated with the Chinese government” conducted the massive theft of personal information on tens of millions of current and former U.S. government employees, an executive with a leading cyber security company told The Daily Beast.

The assessment, which the executive said is based on technical information provided by the U.S....

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