The IC has to ramp up how it manages and mitigates "the risk that a trusted privileged user could inappropriately access, modify, destroy, or exfiltrate classified data,” a new report says.

The suit alleges he violated his non-disclosure agreements with both the NSA and CIA by publishing his memoir.

The jump is the result of an effort to identify U.S. victims of foreign espionage, an ODNI official said.

The hearing gives a snapshot of the threats at the forefront of U.S. intelligence chiefs’ minds, and foreign hacking featured prominently.

The stakes are high; America’s spies must keep pace with growing list of hacking capabilities at adversaries’ disposal.

Rep. Adam Schiff and others have asked the intelligence community to assess how foreign governments could use the technology — video, audio, and images fueled by machine-learning algorithms and other tools — to harm national security interests.