Chinese snoops stole about 60,000 State Department emails when they broke into Microsoft-hosted Outlook and Exchange Online accounts belonging to US government officials over the summer.
“No classified systems were hacked,” said State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller during a press briefing Thursday. “These only related to the unclassified systems.”
The emails exfiltrated from Microsoft’s cloud belonged to 10 State Department officials, nine of whom were working on Indo-Pacific diplomatic efforts, according to Politico. Data stolen from the inboxes reportedly included travel itineraries, diplomatic deliberations, and the 10 officials’ Social Security numbers.
