Chinese hackers stole emails from US State Dept in Microsoft breach, Senate staffer says
- Chinese hackers breached Microsoft's email platform and stole tens of thousands of U.S. State Department emails, with 60,000 emails taken from 10 accounts.
- The compromised State Department accounts were focused on Indo-Pacific diplomacy efforts, and the hackers also obtained a list of all department emails.
- The breach was possible due to the compromise of a Microsoft engineer's device, highlighting the vulnerability of the State Department's email system.
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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
The attacks took place in May just a few weeks before Foreign Minister Antony Blinken's trip to Beijing in June.
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