Chinese Email Hack: Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo And State Department Officials Among AffectedSiladitya Ray
ForbesJul 13, 2023,05:49am EDT
The email accounts of Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo and officials from the State Department were among those affected by the breach carried out by Chinese hackers targeting a vulnerability in Microsoft’s cloud platform, officials confirmed Wednesday. ...
Raimondo is the only Cabinet member who was impacted by the breach, which only affected unclassified government systems, the Washington Post reported.
The State Department was the first to discover the breach last month and “took immediate steps” to secure its systems and notified Microsoft—according to department spokesperson Matthew Miller.
The Commerce Department was notified about the breach by Microsoft and it took “immediate action to respond,” a spokesperson told the press without providing exact details. ...