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Biden Administration Punishes Key Players in Major Chinese Hacks of U.S. Government

The Biden administration on Friday made one final push to expose what officials say is a rampant Chinese cyber-espionage campaign by identifying a company and a person allegedly behind a pair of damaging hacks aimed at senior US officials.

The goal is to “impose real costs” on hackers who “seek to undermine our democratic processes and ultimately our way of life,” as senior US official told CNN. But limiting China’s ability to gather sensitive intelligence from US networks is a decades-long challenge that the Trump administration will now inherit.

Friday’s announcement included Treasury Department sanctions on a Chinese tech company for allegedly playing a key role in a sweeping breach of US telecommunication giants that became public last year. The hackers targeted the phone communications of President-elect Donald Trump, Vice President-elect JD Vance and senior Biden administration officials.

Read the rest of the story at CNN.

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