China Violating Cyber Agreement With U.S., NSA Official Says

China is violating a 2015 cybersecurity agreement that prohibits the electronic theft of intellectual property, and the U.S. might issue sanctions in response, a top official at the National Security Agency said.

Over the last year, the U.S. government has seen a resurgence of hacking and IP theft attempts by people based in China and sometimes even by the Beijing government, Rob Joyce, senior adviser for cybersecurity at the NSA, said at the Aspen Cyber Summit in San Francisco on Thursday.