Wray: China’s Hackers Outnumber FBI 50 to 1

‘To quantify what we are up against: the PRC has a bigger hacking program than every other major nation combined,’ said FBI Director Christopher Wray.

FBI Director Christopher Wray testifies before the House Appropriations Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington on April 11, 2024. Julia Nikhinson/Getty Images

Communist China operates the world’s largest hacking network, and its malign cyber actors outnumber all the cyber experts of the FBI by a staggering margin, Congress has heard.

FBI Director Christopher Wray testified on April 11 that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), which rules China as a single-party state, was “sparing no expense in its attempt to hack, lie, cheat, and steal its way to the top as a global superpower.”