{"id":163104,"date":"2023-04-30T19:23:12","date_gmt":"2023-05-01T00:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/chinese-hackers-outnumber-fbi-cyber-staff-50-to-1-bureau-director-says"},"modified":"2023-04-30T19:23:12","modified_gmt":"2023-05-01T00:23:12","slug":"chinese-hackers-outnumber-fbi-cyber-staff-50-to-1-bureau-director-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/chinese-hackers-outnumber-fbi-cyber-staff-50-to-1-bureau-director-says","title":{"rendered":"Chinese hackers outnumber FBI cyber staff 50 to 1, bureau director says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chinese-hackers-outnumber-fbi-cyber-staff-50-to-1-bureau-director-says2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>U.S. cyber intelligence staff is vastly outnumbered by Chinese hackers, Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Christopher Wray told Congress as he pleaded for more money for the agency.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo give you a sense of what we\u2019re up against, if each one of the FBI\u2019s cyber agents and intel analysts focused exclusively on the China threat, Chinese hackers would still outnumber FBI Cyber personnel by at least 50 to 1,\u201d Wray said in prepared remarks for a budget hearing before a House Appropriations subcommittee on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The disclosure highlights the massive scale of cyber threats the U.S. is facing, particularly from China. Wray said the country has \u201ca bigger hacking program than every other major nation combined and have stolen more of our personal and corporate data than all other nations\u2014big or small\u2014combined.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. cyber intelligence staff is vastly outnumbered by Chinese hackers, Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Christopher Wray told Congress as he pleaded for more money for the agency. \u201cTo give you a sense of what we\u2019re up against, if each one of the FBI\u2019s cyber agents and intel analysts focused exclusively on the China threat, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,1490],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}