US secrets are in peril as a giant hack targeted personal
files of government employees that spies may use to make their way to more
secure computers. Dan Payne, a senior counterintelligence official for the
Director of National Intelligence immediately told Federal employees to change
their passwords. According to Dan Payne, “Some of you may think that you are
not of interest because you don’t have access to classified information,” he
said. “You are mistaken.”
Federal officials said Friday the cyber-attack appeared to
have originated in China, but they didn’t point fingers directly at the Chinese
government. The Chinese said any such accusation would be “irresponsible and
unscientific.”
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