Commission: Companies should be allowed to hack hackers

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A congressional commission is recommending that companies be granted the right to hack foreign adversaries back when their data is stolen.

“Congress [should] assess the coverage of U.S. law to determine whether U.S.-based companies that have been hacked should be allowed to engage in counterintrusions for the purpose of recovering, erasing, or altering stolen data in offending computer networks.” the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission said in its annual report to Congress, released on Wednesday.

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