The U.S. State Department is reportedly invaded by Chinese hackers

A person familiar with the matter revealed that the U.S. State Department was one of the invasive US federal agencies in the newly discovered Chinese hacking activities.

According to the Wall Street Journal, the United States found that the hacker event was over time in June this year, with the time to visit China, the US Secretary of State Brillin.Brinken is the first US Secretary of State to visit Beijing in five years.

One of the people familiar with the matter said that in this attack, a few employees in the United States State Department were attacked, but believed that hackers did not obtain national security information.The US State Department's network security experts first discovered this spy activity using Microsoft Cloud computing environmental loopholes, and Microsoft claimed that the vulnerability had been repaired.According to Microsoft, more than 20 organizations including multiple government agencies were invaded in the hacking activity.

The US State Department spokesman said in the statement: "The State Council found abnormal activities, immediately adopted measures to protect our system, and will continue to monitor and quickly cope with any further activities. According to network security policy, we will be based on network security policy, we, we, we willWithout discussing the details of the measures, the incident is still under investigation. "

U.S. officials said that hackers began in May, when the diplomatic contact of the United States and China rises to heating up. Previously, the relationship between the two countries had sharp relations in the past few months.Debid, including the Ukrainian war, the discovery of the United States and shot down the report that it is said to be China, and the news that China and Cuba strengthened intelligence cooperation were exposed.

Before visiting China in June, the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, Berns, secretly visited Beijing in May.US Treasury Secretary Yellen visited Beijing on the weekend, and the US Climate Special Embassy and former Secretary of State Kerry will visit Beijing on Sunday (July 16).