NBC NEWS
Hackers in China recently broke into the email accounts of around 25 organizations, including multiple government agencies, Microsoft said.
At least one of those agencies is in the U.S. government. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the central federal cybersecurity watchdog, announced Wednesday that “a Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) agency,” which it did not name, first discovered the breach in mid-June.
Microsoft did not name any of the affected countries or agencies, but said that the group primarily focuses on hacking western governments to spy on them. Microsoft said it worked with the federal Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency to kick the hackers out, indicating U.S. organizations are among the victims…
