That’s all well and good, but if China really was behind the breach, it wasn’t about identity theft, it was about Intelligence Gathering and identifying, anyone and everyone they can who is associated with the Intelligence Community, whether military, civil servant or contractors. If the Chinese Intelligence Service can get a database of those who have held or currently hold a security clearance, this is one of the biggest counter-intelligence boondoggles in the history of Intelligence operations. It puts anyone still active in the community at risk.

We’re not talking about some criminal group here only interested in making a few thousand dollars but stealing their identity and trying to obtain credit cards or loans.