By the time Clinton took the podium, China’s hackers had already unplugged and abandoned their hacking tools and command-and-control servers. It would be months before Legion Yankee would hit American radars again. One year later, they would resurface in yet another sophisticated cyberattack at RSA, the security company that sold authentication keys to some of the most high-profile U.S. defense contractors, before using RSA’s source code to hack Lockheed Martin. They would eventually go on to compromise thousands of Western companies across diverse swaths of industries—banks, NGOs, auto
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