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SIS director general Andrew Hampton.
Several New Zealanders have come close to unwittingly giving sensitive information to China's military, the Security Intelligence Service boss says.
The NZSIS and Five Eyes partners warned the Chinese military was using job sites like LinkedIn to target people who likely have access to government and military information - particularly those with national security clearances.
They said it used an "aggressive online recruitment strategy": advertising fake freelance foreign policy and defence analyst roles, then pressuring successful candidates to provide the sensitive information.
