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US slow to react to pervasive Chinese hacking, experts say

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U.S. government issues strong warning about cyber espionage activity by Chinese hackers.

Chinese hackers have long been targeting essential communications and infrastructure systems, experts say.

Congress takes steps toward funding a program that will purge other Chinese technology from telecommunications systems.

Experts say policymakers have been too slow to react to a mountain of evidence that Chinese hackers are targeting essential infrastructure systems.

The Commerce Department is investigating reports that computer routers manufactured by TP-Link are one vector of attack for Chinese hackers.

The Wall Street Journal reported that the Commerce Department may ban the sale of TP-link routers in the U.S. next year .

In October , Microsoft revealed that one Chinese hacking operation has compromised thousands of routers to create a network that is used by "multiple Chinese threat actors" to gain illicit access to computers.

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