Senior US official: China has accessed Obama administration private emails since 2010

Business Insider ^ | 08/09/2015 | NATASHA BERTRAND

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Chinese cyberspies have been reading the private emails of Obama administration officials and "all top national security and trade officials" since 2010, according to a senior administration official and a top secret NSA document obtained by NBC.

The email espionage — codenamed "Dancing Panda" by the US before being dubbed "Legion Amethyst" — was detected in April 2010.

"The intrusion into personal emails was still active at the time of the briefing and, according to the senior official, is still going on," NBC reported.

"Dancing Panda" has successfully attacked at least 600 targets over the last five years, according to NBC.

Interestingly, the period overlaps with Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server for work-related correspondences while she served as Secretary of State from 2009-2013. Neither the official nor the document identified the specific targets of the cyberspying, however.

Clinton's private server is currently under investigation by the FBI.

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[grumpygresh]

0bama is the commie working for China and the one world communist fascist government.

[Buckeye McFrog]

a top secret NSA document obtained by NBC

Bought from the ChiComs, I assume?

[PghBaldy]

If it was detected in 2010, why did they let it go on? In a better world, the Cabinet would have invoked the disability clause of the 25th Amendment.

[PghBaldy]

"It allows the Vice President, together with a majority of either "the principal officers of the executive departments" (i.e., the Cabinet) or of "such other body as Congress may by law provide", to declare the President disabled by submitting a written declaration to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives. As with Section 3, the Vice President would become Acting President."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-fifth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution#Section_3:_Presidential_declaration

[Diogenesis]

Acceptable Treason of the Uniparty
is now as American as apple pie.

[Carry_Okie]

This should be physically impossible. Still, if these messages are fully encrypted, one wonders how far the ChiComs can get with them or how fast.

[PROCON]

I’ll chip in to see all the E-Mails between 0bama and Lois Lerner.

[Red Badger]

[RC one]

Rommel lost Africa over poor comsec. To quote VP Biden, this is a big _____ing deal.

[Red Badger]

We should ask them for copies of Lois Lerner’s e-mails....................

[headstamp 2]

That’s OK. The US government has been busy spying on its own citizens.

[JudyinCanada]

Accessed = opened forwarded emails.

[ForYourChildren]

“If it was detected in 2010, why did they let it go on?”

Ya, I was thinking the same thing. I have a hard time believing they let it go on. So maybe counterintelligence, disinformation, something.

[hal ogen]

As any idiot, mentally-challenged nobama supporter might say “That proves that nobama and his administration love America. He is the greatest patriot.”

[SunkenCiv]

"Death to America!"

[rarestia]

Email is generally encrypted in-transit but seldom encrypted in-state. This is by design, as every time someone accessed an email, it would need to be decrypted, which uses processing cycles. If you have hundreds or thousands of employees, your processing needs just for email expand quickly. The assumption is that if you’re logged into your email, you’re the party who should see it.

[catnipman]

Perhaps Congress could politely ask the Chinese for copies of all of Hillary’s and Lois Lerner’s emails.

[Carry_Okie]

Email is generally encrypted in-transit but seldom encrypted in-state. This is by design, as every time someone accessed an email, it would need to be decrypted, which uses processing cycles.

If the content is classified then "processing time" should be less of a consideration unless it is significant. How much "processing time" are we talking about?