Asked about the reported breach of the two diplomats' accounts, the State Department declines to give any details and says its investigation of the spying operation is ongoing.
WASHINGTON DC, USA – 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 Daniel Kritenbrink, the assistant secretary of state for East Asia, was also hacked in the wider spying operation disclosed earlier this month by Microsoft MSFT.O, the report said, citing people familiar with the matter.
“I can’t comment on an investigation that’s underway being conducted by the FBI, but no, I will not rule it out,” Kritenbrink said. “Identifying the source of cyber attacks is a complex technical issue. We hope that relevant sides will adopt a professional and responsible attitude…rather than make groundless speculations and allegations.”
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