RED-FACED: Officials and security experts say the US is unlikely to publicly heap blame on China for the OPM hack, not when it was mostly their fault for failing to protect the data as well as they could have.
WASHINGTON: While it privately points the finger at China for massive hacking into the personal data of millions of federal employees, the US government does not plan to publicly blame Beijing, US officials said.
President Barack Obama's administration is still debating how it should respond to the breaches, which American officials acknowledge were huge and damaging. China denies any involvement in hacking US databases.
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