By Bill Galluccio
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U.S. Secretary of State
Antony Blinken said that the hackers were working for China s Ministry of State Security and said the agency has fostered an ecosystem of criminal contract hackers who carry out both state-sponsored activities and cybercrime for their own financial gain. These contract hackers cost governments and businesses billions of dollars in stolen intellectual property, ransom payments, and cybersecurity mitigation efforts, all while the MSS had them on its payroll, Blinken said.
Security officials said that cyberattacks targeted tens of thousands of computers and impacted both private companies and government agencies.
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