China’s Fast-Track Spying: 3 Ways China Can Exploit Stolen OPM Data

Chinese hackers have a roadmap for espionage, and Americans are their targets.

The background checks of 21.5 million U.S. federal employees with security clearances are the crown jewels in the Chinese regime’s new system to spy on Americans. The files were allegedly stolen by Chinese hackers who breached the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, which the American public learned about in June.

Using software capable of processing massive amounts of data, the Chinese regime could use the acquired insights from these files to recruit spies, hack companies, or breach systems of critical U.S. infrastructure.

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