Reset button: Clinton vows tougher response to Russian cyberattacks

Published August 31, 2016 5:36pm ET



Hillary Clinton said Wednesday that her administration would treat cyberattacks just like real, physical attacks, and promised the White House would respond to such provocations with the full force of the U.S. military.

“As president, I will make it clear that the United States will treat cyberattacks just like any other attack,” she said during a speech before the American Legion in Cincinnati. “We will be ready with serious political, economic and military responses.”

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