The Director of National Intelligence testified that the Chinese hack of Google should serve as a wake up call. The attack sounds outrageous, but the overall effects to the U.S. are rather minimal. Hacking Google sounds heinous, but again the tangible effects are minimal. The Google hack is irrelevant when compared to all of the other successful hacking that China has accomplished over the last decade, he says. The losses from being hacked by China are nearly impossible to quantify for most companies, he writes.”]
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