The U.S. government contends that Russia and China are “absolutely” employing data gleaned from recent hacks to root out American spies, The Los Angeles Times reports. Cross-indexing can indicate "who is an intelligence officer, who travels where, when, who's got financial difficulties, who's got medical issues, (to) put together a common picture," said counterintelligence official William Evanina. This can lead to blackmail, a growing personal- and national-security concern, ZDNet reports. “When you look at it today ... almost 80 percent of (hackers) are in the business for profit," said Disaster Recovery Institute International President Al Berman.
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