FBI Director Christopher Ray said Sunday that the current scale of espionage and threats to cybersecurity from China are “unprecedented in history.”
“The biggest threat we face as a counterintelligence country is from the People’s Republic of China, and especially from the Chinese Communist Party,” Ray said in a 60-minute interview.
“They focus on our innovation, our trade secrets, our intellectual property on a scale unprecedented in history,” he added, noting that China’s hacking program is bigger than any other great nation combined. .
“They have stolen more personal and corporate data from Americans than any nation combined,” he said, adding that China’s goals cover almost every sector of the economy.
Asked what the FBI was doing to protect itself from the massive attacks, Ray said investigations were moving fast.
“We are now moving at a pace at which we are launching a new Chinese counterintelligence investigation every 12 hours,” the FBI director said.
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“There are 2,000 of these investigations north. All 56 of our field offices are committed to this, and I can assure you that it is not because our agents do not have enough others to work with. This is a measure of how significant the threat is. “
In March, private security firm Mandiant said China had hacked at least six U.S. government governments in the past year and uncovered unknown vulnerabilities in government systems.
Internationally, Ukraine has also accused China of carrying out a major cyber attack on the country’s military and nuclear facilities before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
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