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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Alisha Rahaman Sarkar

China successfully accessed US ambassador Nicholas Burns’s emails in ‘sophisticated’ hacking attack

EPA

China-based hackers reportedly accessed US ambassador Nicholas Burns's email account in a sophisticated espionage operation that is believed to have compromised thousands of American government emails.

The hackers were also able to access the email account of Daniel Kritenbrink, the assistant secretary of state for East Asia, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter.

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