U.S. Ambassador to China Nicholas Burns speaks during a climate finance roundtable discussion at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, Saturday, July 8, 2023. Mark Schiefelbein/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo Beijing-linked hackers accessed the email account of the U.S. ambassador to China in an espionage operation thought to have compromised at least hundreds of thousands of U.S. government emails, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday. Daniel Kritenbrink, the assistant secretary of state for East Asia, was also hacked in the wider spying operation disclosed this month by Microsoft, the newspaper said , citing people familiar with the matter.
Asked about the reported breach of the two diplomats’ accounts, the State Department declined to give any details and said its investigation of the spying operation was going on.
U.S. ambassador Nicholas Burns’s embassy in Beijing referred Reuters to remarks made by Secretary of State Antony Blinken this month when he said the United […]
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