China has arrested alleged OPM hackers
China claims to have arrested the hackers responsible for the gargantuan theft of personal information through the Office of Personnel Management breach and is asserting that the hack was a criminal rather than a state-sponsored act.
The Washington Post reported the arrests, which have not been verified, on Dec. 2. In a glowing account earlier that day, the official Chinese press agency Xinhua reported that Chinese Minister of Public Security Guo Shengkun's Dec. 1 meeting with U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch and Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson had yielded agreements on how the world's two largest economies would fight cyber crime.
The meeting was a follow-up to the cyber accord reached when Chinese President Xi Jinping visited the White House in September.
