FBI Director Christopher Wray on Tuesday warned of ongoing Chinese counterintelligence threats to American companies and health care groups, saying that Chinese espionage cases had increased by 1,300 percent over the past decade.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are conducting these kinds of investigations in all 56 of our field offices, and over the past decade, we have seen economic-espionage cases linked to china increase by approximately 1,300 percent,\u201d Wray said during an event at the Hudson Institute. \u201cThe stakes could not be higher, and the potential economic harm to American businesses and the economy as a whole almost defies calculation.\u201d<\/p>\n
Wray said that the threats were so widespread that all of the FBI\u2019s field offices across the country were working on cases around Chinese espionage, and that the FBI opened a new Chinese counterintelligence investigation \u201cabout every ten hours.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOf the nearly 5,000 active FBI counterintelligence cases currently underway across the country, about half are all related to China,\u201d Wray said. \u201cAt this very moment, China is working to compromise American health care organizations, pharmaceutical companies, and academic institutions conducting essential COVID-19 research.\u201d<\/p>\n
Wray cited massive Chinese hacking incidents over the past few years in describing the threat, including the 2017 breach of credit agency Equifax that exposed the personal information of around\u00a0145 million Americans<\/a>, and the 2015 data breach of health company Anthem that impacted over\u00a078 million people.<\/a><\/p>\n He also pointed to concerns over Chinese telecommunications group Huawei having access to communications networks, and efforts by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to steal research from U.S. academic institutions and companies.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s the people of the United States who are the victims of what amounts to Chinese theft on a scale so massive that it represents one of the largest transfers of wealth in human history,\u201d Wray said. \u201cIf you are an American adult, it is more likely than not that China has stolen your personal information.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" FBI Director Christopher Wray on Tuesday...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,8,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-china","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26685,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26684\/revisions\/26685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}