Chinese hackers stole emails from US State Dept in Microsoft breach, Senate staffer says

Chinese Hackers Stole 60,000 State Department Emails: Report - The Michigan Star

by Arjun Singh   Hackers in China stole 60,000 emails from officials at the Department of State, according to a report by Politico. News of the hacking was revealed by Department of State officials during a private staff briefing on Capitol Hill, recently, Politico reported. There, the department’s chief information officer, Kelly Fletcher, informed staff that over 60,000 emails had been stolen from ten staff members using Microsoft Outlook, the…

According to them, classified information was not accessed. Since Washington “they do not hesitate to attribute the attack to a group called Storm-0558", with Chinese ties

Chinese hackers stole 60,000 US government emails in Microsoft breach

When the Storm-0558 Chinese hackers breached Microsoft’s cloud-based Exchange email platform last May, they stole 60,000 unclassified emails from the employees of the US State Department.The breach was confirmed at a recently held Senate staff briefing which added the compromised personnel were located in East Asia, the Pacific, and Europe, and focused mostly on Indo-Pacific diplomacy work. The threat actors also found a list of all the email ac…

China Steals 60,000 Non-Classified Emails in Hacking Ops, US State Dept Reveals

Microsoft said China breached the email platform and accessed emails from around 25 organisations including US govt agencies.

US State Department says 60,000 emails taken in alleged Chinese hack

The US State Department said Thursday that hackers took around 60,000 emails, although none of them classified, in an attack which Microsoft has blamed on China.

Chinese stole 60,000 State Department emails from Microsoft

No classified systems involved apparently, but internal diplomatic notes, travel details, staff SSNs, etc