The State Department has revealed that hackers linked to China breached its email platform this year, stealing tens of thousands of emails from unclassified accounts. According to a Senate staffer, granted anonymity to share briefing details, State Department IT officials told lawmakers that 60,000 emails were stolen from 10 State Department accounts. Nine of those accounts belonged to people working in East Asia and the Pacific, while one worked in Europe, per the briefing details shared by the staffer for Senator Eric Schmitt. The hackers, who reportedly used a token stolen from a Microsoft engineer to access the accounts, could … Continue reading Chinese Hackers Exploited Microsoft Vulnerability to Steal Emails From US State Dept