The United States government is working on plans to retaliate against China for its hacking of the Office of Personnel Management, where China gained access to the identifying information of more than 20 million government employees.
As legal action pertaining to industrial espionage has begun in European courts, the German intelligence agency known as the BND has cut off its support for US spying activities.
The French aerospace firm Airbus has said it will seek to file a lawsuit against unknown persons in relation to allegations of industrial espionage by the National Security Agency that have surfaced in the German media.
