Chinese hackers breach US ambassador's emails: Wall Street Journal


Beijing-linked hackers accessed US Ambassador to China Nicholas Burns’ e-mail account in an espionage operation. - Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters): Beijing-linked hackers accessed US Ambassador to China Nicholas Burns' email account in an espionage operation thought to have compromised at least hundreds of thousands of individual US government emails, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported on Thursday (July 20).

Daniel Kritenbrink (pic), the assistant secretary of state for East Asia, was also hacked in the wider spying operation disclosed earlier this month by Microsoft, the report said, citing people familiar with the matter.

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