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Chinese hackers who subverted Microsoft's email platform earlier this year managed to steal tens of thousands of emails from U.S. State Department accounts, a Senate staffer told Reuters on...
By Raphael Satter WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Chinese hackers who subverted Microsoft's email platform earlier this year managed to steal tens of thousands...
By Raphael Satter WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Chinese hackers who subverted Microsoft's email platform earlier this year managed to steal tens of thousands...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Chinese hackers who breached Microsoft's email platform this year managed to steal tens of thousands of emails from U.S. State Department accounts, a Senate staffer told Reuters on Wednesday. The staffer, who attended a briefing by State Department IT officials, said the officials told lawmakers that 60,000 emails were stolen from 10 State Department accounts. U.S. officials and Microsoft said in July that Chinese state-linked hackers since May had accessed email accounts at around 25 organizations, including the U.S. Commerce and State Departments.
Native English-speaking hackers would call up a target company’s information technology helpdesk posing as an employee, and seek login details by pretending to have lost theirs. They had all the employee information needed to sound convincing. And once they got access, they’d quickly find their way into the company’s most sensitive repositories to steal that data for extortion.