A computer attack believed to be of Chinese origin compromised 60,000 emails related to U.S. diplomacy in July, the State Department spokesman said Friday.
“Approximately 60,000 unclassified ’emails’ were extracted during this breach,” said spokesman Matthew Miller, when asked about the matter at a news conference.
Miller reiterated that none of the security systems containing confidential information had been hacked.
In July, the US government announced the existence of this computer attack, which Microsoft said was of Chinese origin and targeted federal agencies, including the State Department.
To date, the United States has refused to attribute responsibility, but guarantees that it has “no reason to doubt the publicly disclosed attribution by Microsoft”, which at the time spoke of a responsible person “based in China who developed Microsoft Storm-0558 mentions”.
By the end of May, the United States, its Western allies and Microsoft had already denounced a Chinese-sponsored “cyber actor” that had infiltrated American critical infrastructure networks.
In a State Department report released today, the United States also exposed a massive disinformation campaign by China that threatens freedom of expression around the world.
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Source: DN
