Chinese cyberspies, exploiting a fundamental gap in Microsoft’s cloud, hacked email accounts at the Commerce and State departments, including that of Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo — whose agency has imposed stiff export controls on Chinese technologies that Beijing has denounced as a malicious attempt to suppress its companies.
Democracy Dies in Darkness
Chinese hackers breach email of Commerce Secretary Raimondo and State Department officials
The State Department discovered the Microsoft vulnerability, which affected unclassified government systems, last month
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Updated July 14, 2023 at 5:28 p.m. EDT|Published July 12, 2023 at 12:12 a.m. EDT