Chinese hackers ('hackers') attacked email systems of US government agencies, including the State Department, reported the Microsoft.
In a message placed on its blog, on Tuesday, the North American company identified the group of pirates as 'Storm-0558, which is focused, he added, on acts such as espionage and data theft.
US officials have advanced that Chinese state-backed hackers penetrated Microsoft's 'cloud' and entered unclassified government email systems at various agencies, including the State Department.
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The Infrastructure Security and Cybersecurity Agency and the Federal Police (FBI) determined that the 'hackers' accessed and stole information “from a small number of accounts”.
However, the chairman of the Senate Information Committee, Mark Warner, issued a statement in which he added that he “is monitoring very closely what appears to be a significant breach of cybersecurity by Chinese espionage”, which shows that China “is to constantly improve its information-gathering capabilities directed against the US and allies”
