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Beijing Responds to Tariffs by Outing Alleged NSA Hackers by Name | The United States frequently outs the names of alleged Chinese hackers; China rarely does the same.

The United States frequently outs the names of alleged Chinese hackers; China rarely does the same.

China has named three individuals working at the National Security Agency it claims hacked computer systems for the Asian Winter Games earlier this year. The identification of the alleged NSA operatives followed a report released on April 3 by China’s CVERC, which said that the country had faced more than 270,000 cyberattacks during the winter games, the majority coming from computers located in the US. “Most of Beijing’s reprisal for the trade war won’t come with tariffs,” said Isaac Stone Fish, chief executive officer of Strategy Risk, in an interview with the outlet.

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