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Chinese Hackers Breached the Email of Government Officials by Cracking a Microsoft Engineer’s Account
Breitbart ^ | 09/11/2023 | LUCAS NOLAN

Posted on 09/11/2023 9:53:10 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Chinese hackers broke into a Microsoft engineer’s corporate account, leading to the unauthorized access of email accounts belonging to senior U.S. officials, casting a shadow over the tech giant’s cybersecurity measures. The hack occurred in June, but the company just completed an internal investigation that pointed the finger at its own sloppy security practices.

Bloomberg reports that Microsoft has disclosed that China-linked hackers compromised the corporate account of one of its engineers, then used this unauthorized access to steal a digital key in order to forge authentication tokens. These tokens granted them access to email accounts on Microsoft’s cloud servers, including those belonging to Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, Representative Don Bacon, and State Department officials.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: china; chinese; cybersecurity; government; hackers; microsoft
I am sure smelly pants Biden will get right on this
1 posted on 09/11/2023 9:53:10 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Who would believe that the Chinese hacked an account? They and Zelensky own Jao Bai-din and could simply ask for the keys to government accounts.


2 posted on 09/11/2023 10:25:41 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: ChicagoConservative27

btt


3 posted on 09/11/2023 11:24:23 AM PDT by GailA (Constitution vs evil Treasonous political Apparatchiks, Constitutional Conservative.)
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To: T.B. Yoits
> Who would believe that the Chinese hacked an account?

I wouldn't if the software was from someone other than Microsoft ...

4 posted on 09/11/2023 12:04:35 PM PDT by SecondAmendment (The history of the present Federal Government is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations ....)
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To: SecondAmendment

Microsoft just sent me 874th software update for Windows 10.


5 posted on 09/11/2023 12:43:27 PM PDT by entropy12 (Career politicians like Desantis build wealth. Trump sacrificed his wealth to serve people. GO TRUMP)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Cybersecurity measures are fail safe fail safe fail safe.....


6 posted on 09/11/2023 2:36:11 PM PDT by Vaduz (....)
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To: T.B. Yoits

From Reddit

So how did that *one person* in your department get fired?
https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/16fgeag/so_how_did_that_one_person_in_your_department_get/


7 posted on 09/11/2023 10:47:26 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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