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发帖数: 33885 | 1 CIA yanks personnel from U.S. Embassy in Beijing: Washington Post
Reuters
8 hours ago
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The CIA has withdrawn a number of its personnel from
the U.S. Embassy in Beijing following two massive cyber attacks involving U.
S. government employee records, according to the Washington Post.
Citing current and former U.S. officials "who spoke on the condition of
anonymity to discuss a sensitive matter," the newspaper said the CIA took
the steps because the hack of U.S. Office of Personnel Management records
this year could have enabled the Chinese to identify the intelligence agency
's employees.
U.S. officials have privately pointed to China as the source of the OPM
attacks but have not publicly declared who was behind them. Although no
evidence has emerged that the stolen data has been abused, U.S. officials
have said they are concerned about potential counterintelligence problems.
Officials told the Washington Post that China could compare OPM records,
which include details on State Department employees, to a list of embassy
workers and figure out who could be a potential CIA employee by process of
elimination.
Reuters could not immediately confirm the report, and the CIA, or Central
Intelligence Agency, declined to comment to the Post.
The newspaper report, posted late Tuesday, comes as Director of National
Intelligence James Clapper on Tuesday expressed skepticism about the recent
U.S.-China cyber agreement announced last week.
The OPM breach was discovered this spring and affected security clearance
records dating back many years. |
