The group attacked over two dozen government agencies in Western Europe and the United States, and compromised associated personal accounts of employees.
At least one U.S. government agency was infiltrated by a Chinese cyber espionage group, government officials and Microsoft warned, part of a wider espionage effort that affected over two dozen government agencies in Europe and the U.S.
The threat was contained shortly after it was first reported, but data suggests the hackers had access to government systems since at least May 2023. The compromise was "mitigated" by Microsoft cybersecurity teams after it was first reported to the company in mid-June 2023, Microsoft said in a pair of blog posts about the incidents. The hackers had been inside government systems since at least May, the company said.
"Last month, U.S. government safeguards identified an intrusion in Microsoft's cloud security, which affected unclassified systems. Officials immediately contacted Microsoft to find the source and vulnerability in their cloud service," National Security Council spokesperson Adam Hodge said in a statement to the Wall Street Journal. "We continue to hold the procurement providers of the U.S. government to a high security threshold.
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