How Much Have Foreign Hackers Stolen?
Mike McConnell, a former director of national intelligence, and now vice chairman of Booz Allen Hamilton, said the volume of cybertheft is staggering. Hackers in China and Russia, security experts say, are habitually breaking into foreign travelers’ mobile devices, leapfrogging into their corporate networks and stealing sensitive government information and corporate trade secrets, often undetected. I explored this issue in an article in Saturday’s New York Times. But how much have they stolen? Nobody really knows. Most companies I spoke with [...]