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Sadly, by the standards of past Chinese hacks, this isn’t even all that notable. The PRC was targeting Biden’s Indo-Pacific Summit, a placeholder pretense of countering China, but they also got targeting information for future attacks.
The hackers were also able to access a list of every State Department email address, according to the Senate staffer. That kind of reconnaissance could be useful information for any follow-on hacking efforts aimed at the State Department.
At a press briefing Thursday, State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller confirmed that the hackers accessed about 60,000 State Department emails.
Bizarrely, the State Department is trying to spin this as a win because it wasn’t even worse. The low bar we’re at is that China walking away with 60,000 emails and a list of every State Department email address is a win for our side.
Among the most sensitive information stolen, the staffer said, were victims’ travel itineraries and diplomatic deliberations. Fletcher also said that 10 Social Security numbers were viewed — or could have been viewed — via the hack.
And what’s our response? Investing more money into security while letting China have a clear field to carry on more attacks.
“At a press briefing Thursday, State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller confirmed that the hackers accessed about 60,000 State Department emails.”
But not long ago the media were all breathlessly warning about the grave threat to national security posed by the documents that Trump had stored at his heavily guarded Mar-a-Lago estate.
“China’s Hackers Got a List of Every State Dept Email”
Well, at least hillary Clinton has no tto be concerned.
China’s Hackers Got a List of Every State Dept Email
Tthe hackers accessed about 60,000 State Department emails.
Shouldn’t we assume that Joe Biden provided the list and that resulted in a little gratuity mailed to Joe’s Delaware mansion that the Chinese probably paid for???
In 2018 and 2020, Breitbart Senior Contributor and Government Accountability Institute President Peter Schweizer published Secret Empires and Profiles in Corruption. Each book hit #1 on the New York Times bestseller list and exposed how Hunter Biden and Joe Biden flew aboard Air Force Two in 2013 to China before Hunter’s firm inked a $1.5 billion deal with a subsidiary of the Chinese government’s Bank of China less than two weeks after the trip. Schweizer’s work also uncovered the Biden family’s other vast and lucrative foreign deals and cronyism. Breitbart Political Editor Emma-Jo Morris’ investigative work at the New York Post on the Hunter Biden “laptop from hell” also captured international headlines when she, along with Miranda Devine, revealed that Joe Biden was intimately involved in Hunter’s businesses, appearing to even have a 10 percent stake in a company the scion formed with officials at the highest levels of the Chinese Communist Party. PAM KEY
Good one! I’m still chuckling.
Militarized hacking is a function of China’s military. I’d be much more surprised if they didn’t have them a long time ago and weren’t communicating back and forth routinely with the State Department.
It figures that the State Department is as incompetent as it is corrupt.
The real news there is that the ccp had to hack it, and it wasn’t just given by xiden. Dems are so porous, it doesn’t really matter.