{"id":1972040,"date":"2023-07-13T14:15:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-13T18:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chinese-hackers-reportedly-had-access-to-senior-biden-officials-emails\/"},"modified":"2023-07-13T14:17:54","modified_gmt":"2023-07-13T18:17:54","slug":"chinese-hackers-reportedly-had-access-to-senior-biden-officials-emails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chinese-hackers-reportedly-had-access-to-senior-biden-officials-emails\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese hackers allegedly accessed emails of senior Biden officials."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fchinese-hackers-reportedly-had-access-to-senior-biden-officials-emails%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1972040&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n<h2>Chinese State-Linked Hackers Breach U.S. Government Agencies and More<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Chinese state-linked hackers since May have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chinese-hackers-breach-government-agencies\/\" title=\"Chinese hackers infiltrate government agencies.\">secretly accessed email accounts<\/a> at around 25 organizations, including at least two U.S. government agencies, Microsoft and U.S. officials said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The United States detected a breach of federal government accounts &#8220;fairly rapidly&#8221; and managed to prevent further breaches, White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said in an interview with ABC&#8217;s <em>Good Morning America<\/em> program.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. State and Commerce Departments were among the affected agencies, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-u-s-claims-russia-planning-false-flag-operation-in-ukraine-to-provoke-invasion\/\" title=\"BREAKING: U.S. Claims Russia Planning \u2018False Flag\u2019 Operation In Ukraine To Provoke Invasion\">hackers gained access<\/a> to the email accounts of Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo and State Department officials, the <em>Washington Post<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national-security\/2023\/07\/12\/microsoft-hack-china\/?&#038;wpisrc=nl_the7&#038;carta-url=http:\/\/s2.washingtonpost.com\/car-ln-tr\/3a8fdee\/64afd86f0a267667e0fa1923\/5f357feb9bbc0f433780f914\/29\/65\/64afd86f0a267667e0fa1923\">reported<\/a>, citing U.S. officials familiar with the matter. The hackers reportedly had access to the government emails for about a month before officials caught on to the breach.<\/p>\n<p>Raimondo is the only known Cabinet-level official to have their account breached in the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft said in a statement that the hacking group\u2014which it dubbed Storm-0558\u2014forged digital authentication tokens to access webmail accounts running on the firm&#8217;s Outlook service. The activity began in May, Microsoft said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As with any observed nation-state actor activity, Microsoft has contacted all targeted or compromised organizations directly via their tenant admins and provided them with important information to help them investigate and respond,&#8221; the company added.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft did not say which organizations or governments had been affected, but added that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chinese-hackers-reportedly-had-access-to-senior-biden-officials-emails\/\" title=\"Chinese hackers allegedly accessed emails of senior Biden officials.\">hacking group involved primarily targets entities<\/a> in Western Europe.<\/p>\n<p>China&#8217;s embassy in London called the accusation &#8220;disinformation&#8221; and called the U.S. government &#8220;the world&#8217;s biggest hacking empire and global cyber thief.&#8221; China routinely denies involvement in hacking operations regardless of the available evidence or context.<\/p>\n<p>White House National Security Council spokesman Adam Hodge said an intrusion in Microsoft&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/huge-sidney-powell-witness-whom-ny-times-described-as-always-the-smartest-person-in-the-room-concludes-hundreds-of-thousands-of-votes-transferred-from-trump-to-biden-in-all-battleground-states\/\" title=\"HUGE! Sidney Powell Witness Whom NY Times Described as \"Always the Smartest Person in the Room\" Concludes Hundreds of Thousands of Votes Transferred from Trump to Biden IN ALL BATTLEGROUND STATES\">cloud security<\/a> &#8220;affected unclassified systems,&#8221; without elaborating.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Officials immediately contacted Microsoft to find the source and vulnerability in their cloud service,&#8221; Hodge added.<\/p>\n<p>The State Department &#8220;detected anomalous activity&#8221; and &#8220;took immediate steps to secure our systems,&#8221; a department spokesperson said in a statement. The Commerce Department said it took &#8220;immediate action&#8221; after Microsoft notified it of a compromise.<\/p>\n<p>Private sector cybersecurity experts have said newly discovered hacking activity shows how Chinese groups are improving their cyber capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Chinese cyber espionage has come a long way from the smash-and-grab tactics many of us are familiar with,&#8221; said John Hultquist, chief analyst for U.S. cybersecurity firm Mandiant.<\/p>\n<p>(Editing by Alistair Bell and Diane Craft)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published under:<\/strong> <span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/tag\/china\/\" title=\"View all posts in China\">China<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese state-linked hackers have infiltrated approximately 25 organizations, including two US government agencies and Microsoft, since May. The US swiftly detected the breach in federal government accounts and successfully averted additional intrusions, according to White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":1972041,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1972040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1972040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1972041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1972040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1972040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1972040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}