Web users and academics cast doubt on the official claim, citing lack of free speech and popular representation.

By Lotus Ruan

September 17, 2015

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A Chinese attack targeted personal emails of “all top [U.S.] national security” officials just days after a “spear-phishing” attack of suspected Russian origin on the Pentagon’s joint staff email system, which exposed some 4,000 civilian and military employees.

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A Chinese delegation met with representatives from the FBI, the intelligence community and the state, treasury and justice departments for a “frank and open exchange about cyber issues” in advance of Chinese president Xi Jinping’s October visit to the U.S., and the US director of national intelligence, James Clapper, told the House intelligence committee the next phase of escalating online data theft most likely will involve the manipulation of digital information, with a lower likelihood of a “cyber Armageddon” of digitally triggered damage to catastrophically damage physical infrastructure.