Chinese hackers breached US government emails via Microsoft Cloud exploit
published on Tuesday, Microsoft disclosed that a China-based hacking group — which the company refers to as “Storm-0558” — is intent on “gaining access to email systems for intelligence collection.” It said the espionage-focused group breached an unidentified number of email accounts linked to around 25 organizations, including some related individual consumer accounts and government agencies in Western Europe and the US., it was the US government that notified Microsoft of the exploit.
The group used forged authentication tokens to access impacted email accounts via Outlook Web Access in Exchange Online and Outlook.com from May 15th, remaining undetected for a month until Microsoft began its investigation on June 16th following “customer reported information.” The attack seemingly hasn’t compromised emails connected to the Pentagon, military, and intelligence community
The hack affected unclassified systems and doesn’t appear to have compromised email accounts linked to the Pentagon, military, or intelligence community, according toMicrosoft has contacted and implemented mitigations for all customers targeted during the security breach.
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