The cyber attack occurred during tense relations between the U.S. and China over the war in Ukraine, and the shooting down of a Chinese spy balloon that was found hovering above North America earlier this year
The email account of Daniel Kritenbrink, the assistant secretary of State for East Asia, was also accessed by hackers, people familiar with the matter told WSJ. One of the people said that the diplomats are the the State Department’s top senior officials targeted in the alleged cyber-espionage attacklast week. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo’s email account was also breached by hackers.
Although the infiltration is reportedly limited to unclassified emails, the Biden adminstration believes hackers could have gained insight into U.S. planning ahead of Blinken’s trip to China in June and internal communications regarding U.S. policies, CNNThe breach appeared to hone in on a select number of senior officials managing the U.S.-China relationship, and took advantage of a flaw in Microsoft’s cloud-computing environment that has since been fixed, per WSJ.
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