The theft of the OPM data, as egregious as it was, we wouldn't necessarily consider it as an attack.
James Clapper: “The theft of the OPM data, as egregious as it was, we wouldn't necessarily consider it as an attack.”
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Clapper clarifies the classification of the OPM data breach as espionage rather than an attack.
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