FBI officials recently reached out to members of Congress to alert them to a cyber hack classified as a "major incident."
Fox News is told that China is the culprit and that the breach could pose a threat to national security. The hack involved FBI systems in the Virgin Islands, not FBI headquarters.
The FBI made this designation last week when notifying several members of Congress, Fox News is told.
Bureau officials first informed members of Congress early last month that there was suspicious activity on an internal FBI system that contained law enforcement sensitive information. There is a 2014 law called The Federal Information Security Modernization Act, or FISMA. It "requires agencies to notify congress of major security incidents within seven days after there is a reasonable basis to conclude that a major incident has occurred."
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