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Windows TCO: What Microsoft Did to the United States Government

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 21, 2023

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US China envoy hit through Microsoft cloud breach: report

↺ US China envoy hit through Microsoft cloud breach: report

> Citing "people familiar with the matter", the newspaper said on Thursday, apart from envoy Nicholas Burns, the assistant secretary of state for East Asia, Daniel Kritenbrink, had his email account accessed as well.

> The sources said the account of Secretary of State Antony Blinken was not breached and the focus of the attack appeared to be senior officials responsible for managing US-China ties.

China-linked [attackers] accessed email of U.S. ambassador, officials say

↺ China-linked [attackers] accessed email of U.S. ambassador, officials say

> Last week, officials confirmed that [attackers] based in China broke into email accounts of the State and Commerce departments, but they did not say how many people were affected. The federal Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said that it learned of the hacking campaign in mid-June and that the campaign lasted around a month.

[Attackers] in China Breach Emails of U.S. Ambassador: Report

↺ [Attackers] in China Breach Emails of U.S. Ambassador: Report

> Although the infiltration is reportedly limited to unclassified emails, the Biden adminstration believes hackers could have gained insight into U.S. planning ahead of Blinken’s trip to China in June and internal communications regarding U.S. policies, CNN reported.

> The breach appeared to hone in on a select number of senior officials managing the U.S.-China relationship, and took advantage of a flaw in Microsoft’s cloud-computing environment that has since been fixed, per WSJ.

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