The suspected Chinese hackers who forged Microsoft customer identities to read the emails of State Department employees also obtained the personal and political emails of Rep. Don Bacon, a moderate Republican on the House Armed Services Committee.
that victims of the hacking campaign included Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, unnamed State Department employees, a human rights advocate and think tanks.Bacon told The Post he was notified of the hacking only Monday, which suggests that new victims are still being discovered. The FBI did not respond to requests for comment. Neither did Microsoft.Officials have described the spying as traditional espionage of the sort expected by all sides.
But the breach has alarmed experts for another reason: It was unclear how the government could have prevented it while relying exclusively on Microsoft for cloud, email and authentication services.Microsoft has said that the hackers obtained powerful signing keys they needed to create verified customer identities that could sidestep multifactor authentication. Combined with other Microsoft failings, millions of people could have been exposed to attack.
Officials have said that only a couple dozen entities were impersonated before the State Department found suspicious behavior in its activity logs. Microsoft was then able to search its own logs for the master key that the hackers had obtained and block future access.
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