Hackers Chinese people who subverted the email platform MSFT.O, Microsoft, earlier this year, managed to steal tens of thousands of emails from US State Department accounts, a Senate official told Reuters on Wednesday (27).
The official, who attended a meeting with State Department IT officials today, said officials told lawmakers that 60,000 emails were stolen from 10 different department accounts.
Although the victims have not been identified, all but one worked in East Asia and the Pacific, he said.
The official, who works for Senator Eric Schmitt, shared details of the briefing on the condition that he not be identified by name.
The U.S. State Department did not immediately return a message seeking comment.
Source: CNN Brasil
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