Beginning around 2014, a host of American organizations that store personal identifying information were hacked, with either the government or major private cybersecurity firms attributing China’s Ministry of State Security as the culprit each time.
“For a nation-state, if you’re trying to seed a large analytic engine, more data is always better,” said Michael Daniel, the White House cybersecurity coordinator under President Barack Obama.
“You want to be able to use big-data analytics, and use machine learning and those kinds of new analytic capabilities that have been emerging over the last decade or so. That only becomes viable if you in fact have large amounts of data,” said Daniel, who is president of the Cyber Threat Alliance, an industry trade group.The U.S. regularly accuses China of stealing corporate trade secrets and giving them to state-affiliated companies for a leg-up in business, which goes against U.S. policy.
The 2015 breach of the Office of Personnel Management, which functions roughly as the human resources department of the U.S. government, was the most significant Chinese effort to steal American PII. In addition to the basic PII on the 21.5 million Americans who had worked for the government, China’s Ministry of State Security also acquired a trove of background checks on employees interviewed for sensitive work.
But cybersecurity researchers, who track advanced hacker groups by their tactics, infrastructure and targets, have long tied the hackers behind OPM to other megabreaches, like the hack of 80 million customers from
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