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DoJ Official Says Private Hacking Back Illegal, Unhelpful

DoJ Official Says Private Hacking Back Illegal, Unhelpful
Leslie Caldwell, Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division. Photo: U.S. Department of Justice

Private organizations taking aggressive actions like hacking back to punish cyber attackers or retrieve stolen data is illegal and unhelpful, an assistant attorney general said at a conference last week while promoting the early successes of the new Cybersecurity Unit within the Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section (CCIPS) of the Justice Department’s Criminal DivisionHacking back, the process of a cyberattack victim initiating their own cyberattack to either retrieve/destroy stolen data or punish an attacker, is heavily discouraged by the…

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