Microsoft said that Chinese hackers used the defects of Microsoft code to steal emails from US government agencies and other customers.
Reuters reported that a blog post published by Microsoft on Friday (July 14) revealed that Chinese hackers used "a verification error in the Microsoft code" based on the situation that Chinese hackers were not disclosed.Activity.
This blog post is by far, providing the most detailed explanation for the Chinese hacker incident that stirred the network security industry and the US -China relations.Beijing denies any spy activities.
But the blog post did not explain how hackers obtained Microsoft's digital keys. Some experts speculated that Microsoft itself had been hacked before hackers.
Microsoft did not immediately respond to the problem of digital keys.
Microsoft and US officials said on Wednesday evening that since May, hackers related to the Chinese government have been secretly visited about 25 e -mail accounts.US officials said at least two of them were the State Council and the Ministry of Commerce of the US government.
U.S. Secretary of State Brills on Thursday at an Asian Safe Conference in Jakarta on Thursday, Wang Yi, member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China and director of the Central Foreign Affairs Working Committee, stated that any actions against the US government, US companies or American citizens made the United States "deeply feel deeply feelingWorry "."
Brinken said: "We will take appropriate action to investigate the responsibility of the relevant responsible."