Loading ...USA/CHINA – Chinese Hackers Access Email Of US Ambassador, Compromise “Hundreds Of Thousands” Of US Government Emails
“For security reasons, we will not be sharing additional information on the nature and scope of this cybersecurity incident at this time”
The WSJ reports that hackers “linked to Beijing” have accessed the email account of the U.S. ambassador to China, Nicholas Burns, in an attack that reportedly has “compromised at least hundreds of thousands of individual U.S. government emails.” Daniel Kritenbrink, the US assistant secretary of state for East Asia, was also hacked in the cyber-espionage attack. While it remains unconfirmed, the two diplomats are believed to be the two most senior officials at the State Department targeted in the alleged spying campaign disclosed last week.
I doubt if there is anything about the west that the Chinese don’t know. In fact, I’m certain they know much more about us than we know about ourselves. We are not particularly self-aware!!