The talks had long been planned to follow a landmark agreement
between the two countries reached in September. The next round will come
in June, the Justice Department said.
U.S., China reach agreement on guidelines for requesting assistance fighting cyber crime(Reuters)
The United States and China have reached an agreement on guidelines for requesting assistance on cyber crime or other malicious cyber activities, the U.S. Justice Department said on Wednesday.
The agreement was reached in talks in Washington this week among officials including U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch, U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson and Chinese Public Security Minister Guo Shengkun.
The Justice Department said in addition to the agreement, China and the U.S. will conduct "tabletop exercises" in the spring with a number of scenarios designed to improve understanding of the expectations for response and cooperation.
The
talks had long been planned to follow a landmark agreement between the
two countries reached in September. The next round will come in June,
the Justice Department said.
China's Ministry of
Public security said the agreement would have a "major impact" on the
implementation of internet security measures, adding that the two sides
resolved to maintain frank discussion on the issue.
The
statement made no mention of a report from China's Xinhua news agency
this week on the hacking of sensitive personnel records on people
holding U.S. security clearances at the Office of Personnel Management
(OPM) last year. Xinhua said the hacking was criminal, not
state-sponsored.
The Washington Post
reported Wednesday that multiple people had been arrested in that case,
which compromised data on more than 22 million federal workers, though
people close to U.S. officials told Reuters they believed it was a
legitimate intelligence target and a government-sponsored intrusion.
U.S.
officials have said they are unaware of any evidence demonstrating that
the hacked OPM data had been used for any nefarious purposes.
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