US intelligence chief points finger at China as 'leading suspect' in OPM hack

Danny Palmer
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"You have to kind-of salute the Chinese for what they did," says intelligence director James Clapper

A top US intelligence official has directly accused China of being behind the hack at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), which resulted in the records of millions of US government workers be...

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