Intel Assessment: Weak Response to Breaches Will Lead to More Cyber Attacks

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By Bill Gertz
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Washington Free Beacon
July 28, 2015

The United States will continue to suffer increasingly damaging cyber 
attacks against both government and private sector networks as long as 
there is no significant response, according to a recent U.S. intelligence 
community assessment.

Disclosure of the intelligence assessment, an analytical consensus of 16 
U.S. spy agencies, comes as the Obama administration is debating how to 
respond to a major cyber attack against the Office of Personnel 
Management. Sensitive records on 22.1 million federal workers, including 
millions cleared for access to secrets, were stolen by hackers linked to 
China’s government.

U.S. officials familiar with the classified cyber assessment discussed its 
central conclusion but did not provide details.

Spokesmen for the White House and office of the director of national 
intelligence declined to comment.

Recent comments by President Obama and senior military and security 
officials, however, reflect the intelligence assessment.

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