Chinese hackers hacked into MSFT Security gaining access to Govt. accounts

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BREAKING: Chinese hackers have exploited a vulnerability in Microsoft's cloud security and gained access to many US and EU government email accounts. Microsoft just announced that the hacking group began accessing the accounts in May, and were not discovered until June.

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Breaking news: Chinese cyberspies, exploiting a fundamental gap in Microsoft’s cloud, hacked email accounts at the Commerce and State Departments. Commerce has imposed stiff export controls on Chinese technologies that Beijing has denounced as malicious. wapo.st/3PVkMBx