Posted on 07/20/2023 5:03:13 PM PDT by dynachrome
China-based hackers breached the email account of US Ambassador to China Nicholas Burns as part of a recent targeted intelligence-gathering campaign, three US officials familiar with the matter told CNN.
The hackers also accessed the email account of Daniel Kritenbrink, the assistant secretary of State for East Asia, who recently traveled with Secretary of State Antony Blinken to China, the people said.
The news, first reported by the Wall Street Journal, adds to the fallout for the US of the alleged Chinese hack first revealed last week. The hackers also infiltrated the emails of Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, CNN previously reported.
US officials have consistently labeled China as the most advanced of US adversaries in cyberspace, a domain that has repeatedly been a source of bilateral tension in recent years. The FBI has said Beijing has a larger hacking program than all other governments combined.
The hackers breached the unclassified US government email system, and US officials generally operate with the assumption that anything on the unclassified network can be hacked. Still, the Biden administration believes that the Chinese hacking operation gave Beijing insights about US thinking heading into Blinken’s high-stakes trip to China in June, CNN has reported.
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Comedy gold. The sad thing is, they only learn how stupid we are and that they really do own DC already. They learn nothing useful.
Not a hack. This is what China gets for paying off Joe Biden and his racketeering clan of villains.
The emails of the US State Department. Thousands and thousands.
Sold to China by Joe Biden.
What a creep.
Earlier case:
Headlilne:
Thiessen: Sen. Dianne Feinstein had a Chinese spy on her payroll....
The Mercury News
Aug 10, 2018 — Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., had a Chinese spy on her staff who worked for her for 20 years, who was listed as an “office director” on payroll....
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A local source who knew about the incident confirmed to us that the FBI showed up at Feinstein’s office in Washington, D.C., about five years ago to alert the then-chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee that her driver was being investigated for possible Chinese spying.
“Dianne was mortified,” said our source, who spoke to us only on condition he not be named.
The unnamed staffer was Feinstein’s driver and gofer when she was in the Bay Area and served as a liaison with the Chinese-American community. Apparently, he was recruited by someone in China during a visit to Asia.
That someone was connected with the People’s Republic of China’s Ministry of State Security.
The FBI interviewed the spy and determined he hadn’t passed on anything of value.
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Me: But she often discussed committee matters on her cell phone while en route to places and many items could have been gleaned from that information going to the Chinese.
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