The US says it detected a breach of federal government accounts “fairly rapidly” and managed to prevent further breaches. Read more at straitstimes.com.
WASHINGTON/LONDON - Chinese state-linked hackers since May have secretly accessed email accounts at around 25 organisations, including US government accounts, in a stealthy cyberespionage campaign, Microsoft and US officials said on Wednesday.
The hacking group, which Microsoft dubbed Storm-0558, forged digital authentication tokens to access webmail accounts running on the firm’s Outlook service, the company said in a statement. The activity began in May, Microsoft said. China’s embassy in London called the accusation “disinformation” and called the US government “the world’s biggest hacking empire and global cyber thief.”
“Officials immediately contacted Microsoft to find the source and vulnerability in their cloud service,” Mr Hodge added.
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