State-backed Chinese hackers foiled Microsoft's cloud-based security in hacking the email accounts of officials at multiple U.S. agencies that deal with China ahead of Secretary of State Antony Blinken's trip to Beijing last month, officials said Wednesday.
The surgical, targeted espionage accessed the email of a small number of individuals at U.S. agencies, officials said. Microsoft also confirmed the hack in a blog post.
Cyberspies from China exploited a fundamental gap in the Microsoft cloud, enabling them to conduct a targeted hack of unclassified U.S. email accounts.
HONG KONG (AP) — China called a Microsoft report that a China-based hacking group breached government-linked email accounts “disinformation,” saying Wednesday that the accusation was meant to diver…
WASHINGTON >> State-backed Chinese hackers foiled Microsoft’s cloud-based security in hacking the email accounts of officials at multiple U.S. agencies that deal with China ahead of Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s trip to Beijing last month, officials said today.
Chinese government-linked hackers attempted to breach email accounts at the State Department and Commerce Department earlier this year, according to revelations from Microsoft. Both agencies confir…
Microsoft is warning that China-linked cyberattackers hacked customer emails, including government agencies, and the Biden administration is investigating the scope of the damage.
A China-based hacking group intent on conducting espionage breached a series of email accounts linked to government agencies in Western Europe, according to Microsoft Corp.
China-based hackers have accessed email accounts of several organizations including some US and Western European government agencies. The breach was reportedly detected only weeks after the activity began.
The hacking group, which Microsoft dubbed Storm-0558, forged digital authentication tokens to access webmail accounts running on the firm's Outlook service, Microsoft said in a statement on its website. The activity began in May
Microsoft said Tuesday that a Chinese hacking group called Storm-0558 breached email accounts from multiple organizations and government agencies. The attack has been mitigated.
The extent of the hack was not immediately clear, but a person familiar with the hack investigation said U.S. military and intelligence agencies were not among those impacted.
By Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — China-based hackers have breached email accounts at two-dozen organizations, including some United States government agencies, in an apparent spying campaign aimed at acquiring sensitive information, according to statements from Microsoft and the White House late Tuesday…
Chinese state-linked hackers have secretly accessed email accounts at around 25 organizations including government agencies in a sweeping cyberespionage campaign, Microsoft said on Wednesday.
