{"id":1979347,"date":"2023-07-21T10:28:05","date_gmt":"2023-07-21T14:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-hacks-us-ambassadors-email\/"},"modified":"2023-07-21T10:29:58","modified_gmt":"2023-07-21T14:29:58","slug":"china-hacks-us-ambassadors-email","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-hacks-us-ambassadors-email\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese hackers breach US Ambassador&#8217;s email."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/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%2Fchina-hacks-us-ambassadors-email%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=1979347&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--><h2>Beijing-linked Hackers\u200d Compromise \u200cU.S. Ambassador&#8217;s \u200dEmail Account in Espionage Operation<\/h2>\n<p>According to the\u200b <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em>, hackers with ties to\u2063 Beijing have successfully accessed the email account of the \u2064U.S. ambassador to China, resulting in a major <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-defends-putin-summit\/\" title=\"White House Defends Putin Summit\">espionage operation<\/a> that may have compromised hundreds of thousands of U.S. \u2062government\u200c emails. This alarming breach was revealed on Thursday, shedding light on the extent of cyber \u2063threats faced by\u2063 the United States.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the ambassador, Daniel Kritenbrink, the assistant secretary of state for East Asia, was also targeted in this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-hacks-us-ambassadors-email\/\" title=\"Chinese hackers breach US Ambassador's email.\">wide-scale spying operation<\/a>, which was recently disclosed\u200b by Microsoft. The <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em> cites sources familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n<h3>State \u2063Department Investigation Underway<\/h3>\n<p>When asked about the reported breach, the State Department declined to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-snubs-gop-leaders-on-new-iran-diplomacy\/\" title=\"Biden Admin Snubs GOP Leaders on New Iran Diplomacy\">provide specific details<\/a>, stating that their investigation into the spying\u2062 operation is ongoing. U.S. ambassador Nicholas\u200d Burns&#8217;s \u2064embassy in Beijing referred to Secretary of State Antony Blinken&#8217;s \u2062recent\u200b remarks, emphasizing that the United States takes any action targeting its government, companies, \u2063or citizens\u200c very seriously\u200c and \u200bwill respond accordingly.<\/p>\n<p>China\u2062 Denies Involvement<\/p>\n<p>China&#8217;s embassy in Washington has \u2063firmly denied any involvement in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fbi-fla-authorities-investigating-hack-on-pinellas-county-water-supply\/\" title=\"FBI, Fla. authorities investigating hack on Pinellas County water supply\">cyber attacks<\/a>, \u2062stating that they \u2062consistently oppose and combat all forms of cyber attacks and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-u-s-f-35s-attack-subs-could-destroy-a-chinese-amphibious-attack\/\" title=\"How U.S. F-35s &#038; Attack Subs Could Destroy a Chinese Amphibious Attack\">cyber theft<\/a>. The\u200d embassy&#8217;s spokesman, Liu Pengyu, dismissed the speculation surrounding the\u200b source of the attacks as &#8220;groundless&#8221; and \u200dcalled for a professional and responsible approach to\u200b identifying the true culprits.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft&#8217;s Security Practices Under Scrutiny<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Microsoft revealed that Chinese hackers exploited a flaw\u200d in its code and misappropriated one of its digital\u200b keys to steal emails from U.S. government agencies and other clients. The breach \u2064has raised concerns about Microsoft&#8217;s security practices, with officials and lawmakers urging the company to provide its highest level of digital auditing, known as logging, free of\u200c charge \u200bto all customers.<\/p>\n<p>The\u200b State Department \u2064has taken immediate action to secure its systems after detecting\u2064 anomalous activity. The investigation into this cyber attack continues, with experts working to identify the source and vulnerability in Microsoft&#8217;s cloud service.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published under:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/tag\/china\/\" title=\"View all posts in China\">China<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Wall Street Journal, hackers linked to Beijing infiltrated the email account of the U.S. ambassador to China, potentially compromising hundreds of thousands of U.S. government emails. The assistant secretary of state for East Asia, Daniel Kritenbrink, was also targeted in this recently revealed espionage operation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":1979348,"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":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1979347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"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\/1979347","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=1979347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1979348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1979347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1979347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1979347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}