Why Has The U.S. Not Sanctioned China For State-Sponsored Cyberattack On 30,000 Microsoft Exchange Servers?

Daily Mail: Ted Cruz tears into Biden intel officials for having no answer and sitting silently instead of sanctioning China for state-sponsored cyberattack on 30,000 Microsoft Exchange servers

* Cruz quizzed Biden Administration officials at a Judiciary hearing Tuesday

* He asked a panel why China had not been sanctioned over repeated hacking

* No official chose to respond to his question

* The U.S. has imposed sanctions on Russia over hacking and election interference The president made his first address to the intelligence community as president

* Visited the Office of the Director of National Intelligence in Virginia outside DC

* He warned Putin is in 'real trouble' which makes him 'more dangerous'

* Mentioned the nuclear power's oil-dependent economy

* He said the next 'shooting war' with a major power could get triggered by cyber

A panel of top cybersecurity officials was briefly left speechless at a congressional hearing Tuesday when Sen. Ted Cruz asked why China had not been sanctioned over a brazen cyber attack on Microsoft Exchange email server software and other attacks.

The officials, from Justice Department, the Infrastructure Security Agency, and the FBI, were testifying at a Judiciary Committee hearing titled 'America Under Siege: Preventing and Responding to Ransomware Attacks.'

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WNU Editor: The White House has been AWOL on this topic.

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