https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/11/us/politics/trump-china-trade.html
By David E. Sanger, Nicole Perlroth, Glenn Thrush and Alan Rappeport
The New York Times
Dec. 11, 2018
WASHINGTON -- The cyberattack on the Marriott hotel chain that collected
personal details of roughly 500 million guests was part of a Chinese
intelligence-gathering effort that also hacked health insurers and the
security clearance files of millions more Americans, according to two
people briefed on the investigation.
The hackers, they said, are suspected of working on behalf of the Ministry
of State Security, the country's Communist-controlled civilian spy agency.
The discovery comes as the Trump administration is planning actions
targeting China's trade, cyber and economic policies, perhaps within days.
Those moves include indictments against Chinese hackers working for the
intelligence services and the military, according to four government
officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity. The Trump
administration also plans to declassify intelligence reports to reveal
Chinese efforts dating to at least 2014 to build a database containing
names of executives and American government officials with security
clearances.
Other options include an executive order intended to make it harder for
Chinese companies to obtain critical components for telecommunications
equipment, a senior American official with knowledge of the plans said.
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