Chinese hackers stole US government emails

FBI warning: Chinese hackers compromised Outlook accounts of U.S. government agency employees

In a joint statement by the CISA and FBI issued on July 12th, 2023, the federal agencies confirmed that advanced persistent threat (APT) actors managed to access and download Exchange Online Outlook data that includes info from email accounts of U.S. government employees. The news was also confirmed by tech giant Microsoft which continues to work on mitigating the attack. The tech giant identified the hacker organization, which …

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