Cyberattack against the US is bigger than initially thought

The World

A major cyberattack against the US government first came to light earlier this week. Since then, we’ve been learning more about the scale of it. Not just Treasury and Commerce, but the Departments of State, Defense and Justice, among others, were all breached. Now, multiple lawmakers say Russia is to blame. Host Marco Werman talks with Lauren Zabierek, the executive director of the Cyber Project at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.

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