Cybersecurity
More Than Government Emails Likely Exposed in Hack Tied to China
- Key used by hackers may have yielded other intel: experts
- Chinese operatives suspected in breach of US agency accounts
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Suspected Chinese hackers who infiltrated the emails of US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo and government officials from around the world may have had access beyond emails, according to a cloud security firm.
Earlier this month, Microsoft Corp. said that hackers had breached cloud-based email accounts at US and European government agencies by using a Microsoft account-signing key to forge authentication tokens. How the hackers obtained the key has not been revealed.