The Obama administration, frustrated by a lack of cooperation from the Chinese government, is now considering a range of options in retaliation for Chinese hackers' attacks on U.S. businesses, according a to a report.

The Director of National Intelligence is working on a new report that will argue the Chinese government is directly involved in cyberattacks against the United States, reports the Associated Press. The report will focus on the negative impact of economic cybercrime on the U.S. economy, per former U.S. officials who spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity.

Hackers have long infiltrated foreign business' computer systems to steal intellectual property in order to sell or copy it. It's difficult to asses the exact loss to the U.S. economy as a result of economic cybercrime, but some estimates are in range of tens-to-hundreds of billions of dollars.

"We have to begin making it clear to the Chinese that the United States is going to have to take action to protect not only our government's, but our private sector, from this kind of illegal intrusions," said outgoing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Thursday.

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News of the upcoming report comes a day after the New York Times and The Wall Street Journal revealed they have both been the target of cyberattacks which security experts believe originated in China. The Times was specifically targeted following its publication of a story embarrassing to Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabo.

China's government has flatly denied involvement in these and other cyberattacks for which it is blamed, including attacks against Bloomberg News, Google, the U.S. Department of Defense and other American organizations.

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