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Some incredible reporting here from @JennaMC_Laugh and @zachsdorfman, including the concern among intelligence officials that China may have shared hacked OPM data with the Kremlin, who in turn leveraged it to identify undercover CIA spies.

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It’s worth remembering that the top takeaway from the worldwide threat assessment in January was that China and Russia were more strategically aligned today than at any time since the 1950s. wsj.com/articles/allie…
This Yahoo story also expertly lays out why and how cybersecurity and intelligence have fully merged and are no longer two separate worlds. This has profound implications for national security.
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SCOOP: The Navy and its contractors are "under cyber siege" by China and others, hemorrhaging national security secrets at a rate that threatens U.S. standing as the world's top military power, internal review finds w/ @glubold wsj.com/articles/navy-…
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Here’s another one that I missed.

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