Dan Coats On U.S. Cybersecurity: 'The Warning Lights Are Blinking'

In recent years, major American companies and the federal government have been hit with a series of devastating cyber attacks. In 2013, 3 billion Yahoo accounts were hacked. In 2015, the federal Office of Personnel Management said hackers had stolen the personnel records of 22 million current and former government employees. And in 2018, Equifax lost the data of at least 145 million U.S. citizens.

Now, Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats says the current cybersecurity threat is analogous to the threat level the nation faced just before 9/11.

Hiawatha Bray, technology writer for the business section of The Boston Globe. He tweets @globetechlab.