BREAKING: U.S STATE DEPARTMENT HACKED BY CHINA
Here’s what we know from this MASSIVE hack by China-based hackers:
- Approximately 60,000 emails were stolen from the State Department.
- They also hacked the email accounts of around 25 other organizations, including government agencies.
- Ten US State Department email addresses were hacked, which 9 of them belonged to individuals deep in East Asia and Pacific affairs.
- Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo was among the individuals impacted.
- The hackers forged digital authentication tokens required by the system. The tokens are typically used to verify a person's identity.
- China labelled the accusation "disinformation" and called the US government "the world's biggest hacking empire and global cyber thief."
- Experts say this is one of the largest known cyber espionage campaigns against the US.
- The hack was uncovered by Microsoft, and occured around May this year.
How should the U.S respond?
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