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Sead Fadilpašić

The US State Department told Microsoft that emails in its cloud were hacked last month

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Microsoft was tipped off on the existence of Storm-0558’s latest campaign by none other than the US State Department, whose emails were allegedly accessed by the Chinese threat actor.

Earlier this week, it was reported that a Chinese threat actor accessed more than two dozen email accounts belonging to different organizations in the West, including government firms. Microsoft attributed the attack to Storm-0558, a group known for espionage and data theft. 

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