Chinese Hackers Accessed Email Accounts of US Ambassador to China, Assistant Secretary

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Ambassador Burns with PRC Minister of Commerce Wang Wentao

Sources say that hackers linked to Beijing accessed the email account of the US ambassador to China, Nicholas Burns, in an attack that is believed to have compromised at least hundreds of thousands of individual US government emails.

They also say that Daniel Kritenbrink, the assistant secretary of state for East Asia, was also hacked in the cyber-espionage attack. The two diplomats are believed to be the two most senior officials at the State Department targeted in the alleged spying campaign disclosed last week, one of the people said/

Though limited to unclassified emails, the inboxes of Burns and Kritenbrink could have allowed the hackers to glean insights into US planning for a recent string of visits to China by senior Biden administration officials, as well as internal conversatio…