U.S. Pulls Its Spies Out Of China

CNN: U.S. pulls spies from China after hack

The United States is pulling spies from China as a result of a cyberattack that compromised the personal data of 21.5 million government workers, a U.S. official said Tuesday.

The U.S. suspects that Chinese hackers were behind the breach at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, which exposed the fingerprints of 5.6 million government employees.

Because the stolen data includes records on State Department employees, the hackers could, by process of elimination, identify embassy personnel who are actually intelligence agents.

Employees of the Central Intelligence Agency, National Security Agency and Defense Intelligence Agency assigned to China are at risk of being exposed, U.S. intelligence officials determined in recent months. The Washington Post reported Tuesday that the CIA has pulled a number of officers from the U.S. Embassy in Beijing.

Update #1: CIA pulled officers from Beijing after breach of federal personnel records -- Washington Post
Update #2: CIA withdrew officers from Beijing embassy following OPM data breach -- UPI
Update #3: CIA Withdrew Officers From US Embassy In Beijing After Federal Personnel Records Breach: Report -- IBTimes

WNU Editor: This action confirms to me that this data breach is probably far worse than what they are admitting.