{"id":2003066,"date":"2023-08-16T20:41:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-17T00:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-congressman-says-his-emails-were-hacked-by-chinese-communist-party-operatives\/"},"modified":"2023-08-16T20:41:38","modified_gmt":"2023-08-17T00:41:38","slug":"gop-congressman-says-his-emails-were-hacked-by-chinese-communist-party-operatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-congressman-says-his-emails-were-hacked-by-chinese-communist-party-operatives\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP Congressman Claims Chinese Communist Party Operatives Hacked His Emails"},"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\">20<\/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%2Fgop-congressman-says-his-emails-were-hacked-by-chinese-communist-party-operatives%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=2003066&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>Nebraska Republican Rep. Don Bacon:\u2063 Chinese Communist Party Hacked My Emails<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nebraska Republican\u2063 Representative Don Bacon revealed on Tuesday that he was informed by the FBI about the Chinese\u200c Communist Party hacking into his \u200demails. This alarming news follows\u2064 previous reports of suspected Chinese hackers gaining access to communications from officials \u200cat the State Department and the Commerce \u2064Department.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;I\u200b thank \u2062the FBI for notifying me that the CCP hacked into my personal and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democratic-rep-fundraises-off-upcoming-big-oil-hearing\/\" title=\"Democratic Rep Fundraises Off Upcoming \u2018Big Oil\u2019 Hearing\">campaign emails<\/a> from May \u206315th to June 16th of this year. The CCP hackers \u200butilized a vulnerability in \u200bthe Microsoft software, and this was not due to &#8216;user error,'&#8221; Bacon \u2064 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepDonBacon\/status\/1691187487350177793\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said on\u200c X<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bacon emphasized\u2064 that he was \u200cnot the only victim of this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-releases-list-of-president-trumps-accomplishments-and-it-is-historic\/\" title=\"White House Releases List of President Trump\u2019s Accomplishments \u2013  And It Is Historic!\">cyber operation<\/a> and highlighted the active role of the Chinese government in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republican-congressman-warns-china-is-using-our-own-technology-against-us\/\" title=\"Republican Congressman Warns, \u2018China Is Using Our Own Technology Against Us\u2019\">conducting cyber espionage<\/a>. \u200bHe pledged to work\u2064 tirelessly to ensure that Taiwan receives the necessary military equipment, including the $19 billion \u2063in weapons\u200b backlog they&#8217;ve ordered, to deter any potential aggression \u200bfrom China. As a member \u2063of the House Armed Services Committee, Bacon has consistently advocated for increased U.S. military support for \u2064Taiwan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The hacking \u2064of federal\u2062 agencies, which was \u2063first discovered in June, became public knowledge in July. The Commerce Department \u200dpromptly responded to the \u2064compromise of Microsoft&#8217;s Office 365 system after being notified by Microsoft. The breach also affected the communications of U.S. Ambassador to China Nicholas Burn and \u2064Assistant Secretary of \u2064State for East Asia \u2063Daniel Kritenbrink.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILY\u200d WIRE APP<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In March, the White House \u2062released a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/National-Cybersecurity-Strategy-2023.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">framework<\/a> highlighting \u200bthe urgent\u200b need for enhanced cybersecurity. The framework warned that China, North Korea, Russia, and\u2062 Iran were\u200b actively \u2062working\u2062 to strengthen\u2063 their \u2064cyber capabilities. According to the framework, China poses the \u200bmost \u200bsignificant and persistent threat \u2064to both government\u2062 and \u2064<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-congressman-says-his-emails-were-hacked-by-chinese-communist-party-operatives\/\" title=\"GOP Congressman Claims Chinese Communist Party Operatives Hacked His Emails\">private sector networks<\/a>, with the\u2063 intent and power \u2064to reshape \u200bthe\u2062 international order.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>me about the Chinese Communist Party hacking my emails,&#8221; said Rep. Don Bacon, a Nebraska Republican. This follows reports of suspected Chinese hackers breaching communications of State and Commerce Department officials. Bacon expressed gratitude to the FBI for their notification.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":200,"featured_media":2003068,"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":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2003066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"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\/2003066","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\/200"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2003066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2003068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2003066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2003066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2003066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}