Evening Edition: China Based Hackers Breach U.S. Government Emails

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🗓️ 13 July 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Both U.S. officials and Microsoft confirm that hackers based in China broke into email accounts at the State Department and Commerce Department. The hacking campaign was first found out in June, during a period of time when top Chinese officials were meeting with U.S. officials. FOX's John Saucier speaks with Michael Balboni, former New York State Homeland Security Advisor and Director of RedLand Strategies, about how the breach happened and why certain people and departments were targeted. Click Here To Follow 'The FOX News Rundown: Evening Edition' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.6	Thursday, July 13th, 2023.
0:32.5	I'm John Sassier.
0:34.0	You may not realize this, but right now, Chinese hackers are toying with us.
0:38.7	There's been a major recent hack on email addresses, many which connected to government
0:42.6	agencies.
0:43.6	This was not done at random, rather, it was a very pointed electronic breach.
0:47.8	Several of the folks that were targeting had been very critical of China.
0:53.6	And so they're the ones that the Chinese said, you know what, we're going to go out here,
0:57.6	they're individually emails.
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