A staff member of the United States Senate unknown that Chinese hackers have earlier this year Emailing platforms invaded by Microsoft , successfully stole tens of thousands of emails from the US State Department account.
Reuters reported that the staff member Schmidt worked for Senator Schmidt, and he participated in a briefing of information technology officials of the State Council.
The staff said that these officials told the legislators that 60,000 emails of the State Council's 10 different accounts were stolen.Although it is not disclosed who the victim is, except for one person, the rest of the victims work in East Asia and the Pacific.
In July this year, Microsoft Company said that Chinese hackers invaded the email systems of more than 20 US institutions, including the US Department of Commerce and the State Department.Beijing previously pointed out that the allegations of stealing the email of the US officials were basically not foundation.
The Director of the US Federal Investigation Agency, Christopher Lei, said that the scale of China's cyber spy plan is huge, The sum of all major competitors .
Senator Schmidt said in a statement: "We need to strengthen defense to deal with such cyber attacks and invasion in the future. We need to conscientiously examine the federal government's dependence on single suppliers, because this is a potentialWeak. "
