Obama issues cyberdirective after DNC hack

Published July 26, 2016 2:42pm ET



President Obama on Tuesday issued a detailed policy directive on how the U.S. government will handle cybersecurity incidents, including how the public should report hacks and other events, and what government agencies will handle responses.

The directive is the result of months of administration deliberation after major hacks of private and government entities by foreign governments during Obama’s second term. But it was released one day after the FBI announced an investigation into the embarrassing hack of the Democratic National Committee’s emails and the leak of roughly 20,000 emails, amid reports that Russia is responsible.

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