Iran caught us completely off guard. The United States was already struggling to track, let alone fend off, thousands of Chinese cyberattacks. Aurora was just the tip of the iceberg. “Legion Yankee” was but one of more than two dozen Chinese hacking groups and contractors frenetically hacking into U.S. government agencies, businesses, universities, and labs. They were making off with trillions of dollars’ worth of U.S. intellectual property, nuclear propulsion blueprints, and weaponry, costing the United States as many as a million jobs a year.
