In Washington the attack paralyzed U.S. officials, who had yet to formulate a clear strategy for containing the growing cyber threat from Iran, let alone how to respond when private American companies were caught in the crossfire. They were finding it hard enough to protect their own systems from attacks. American officials didn’t know it at the time, but the very same month that Sands was hacked, Chinese hackers were in the preparation phase of their attack on the Office of Personnel Management, the attack that resulted in the theft of the most sensitive data imaginable for 21.5 million
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