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Re:Marriott Data Breach Traced to Chinese Hackers, US Readie... by resters on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @10:35PM (#18661175)
The article mentions that the US Government has not attributed the hack to China. This step has been done by private security contractor firms who "notice a lot of similarities" with other hacks attributed to China.

This is extremely weak reasoning. Any state actor would have the ability to cover its tracks, and more importantly to frame other state actors.

The article ends with a bit of classic anti-communism fear mongering.

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Re:Marriott Data Breach Traced to Chinese Hackers, US Readie... by jonnybgood on Wednesday December 12, 2018 @01:18AM (#18661749)
It wouldn't be the first time a private security firm exposed Chinese hacking.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLA_Unit_61398

Mandiant's report: https://www.fireeye.com/content/dam/fireeye-www/services/pdf...

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