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Comment by yumraj | Hacker News Reader

These days state-sponsored has become a euphemism for Chinese.

Nah. For example Sony was hacked by North Korea. CIA was repeatedly hacked by Russia (Vault 7, director emails). And yes, every high-tech US corporation is sucked dry of secrets by China (Micron, Intel, Supermicro, Waymo, Boeing, etc.)

China wins by a huge margin.

It depends on who the boogeyman de jour is.

It was North Korea for a while, with every major hack blamed on them, then it was Russia, and now it's China - lo and behold, they get the blame for every major hack.

Now, I'm not saying it wasn't China - what I'm saying is that Western governments make it like "the body who cried wolf".

Don't forget about Iran.

As a data point, China's "hacker army" has 50k-100k people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_cyberwarfare

The supporting link for that figure describes China's hackers army as a myth (in the header), and as a loose coalition of civilians in the body:

>"That revelation, along with a separate story in the Financial Times that a freelancer wrote the Aurora code, is focusing attention on China’s loose web of cowboy hackers. And SharpWinner — the leader of a coalition including anywhere from 50,000 to 100,000 civilian members …" //

The rest of the Wikipedia page, amongst other things, describes a structured make up (military, PLA, civilian).

Assuming the numbers were true, how does that compare to USA's, or other countries?

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