US Congressman Don Bacon says Chinese spies hacked his emails
Don Bacon
Republican US Representative Don Bacon said late Monday that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) had issued a warning that his emails had been hacked by Chinese spies, with both personal and campaign messages compromised, in addition to reading the emails of State Department workers.
Bacon, who is a Republican from Nebraska and serves on the House Armed Services Committee, shared a post on social media platform X on Monday to share the details.
As per reports, the same spies also exploited a Microsoft error for a month, from mid-May to mid-June, which corresponds to when the other breaches were allegedly committed, according to the investigators.
In the post, he said that he was told that the Chinese Communist Party had access to his accounts for about a month ending on June 16. Bacon said that the hack was the result of a "vulnerability in Microsoft software".
Efforts by the CCP to undermine our critical infrastructure and infiltrate our networks are extremely concerning.
We must be nimble to address the increasingly complex threats we face within the cyber domain, especially by our adversaries in Beijing. https://t.co/YiCeXaz49a — House Homeland GOP (@HomelandGOP) August 15, 2023
It seemed to be a reference to the hacking operation that Microsoft revealed last month, which allegedly led to the theft of hundreds of thousands of emails from top US government figures, including Gina Raimondo, the US Commerce Secretary, and Nicholas Burns, the US Ambassador to China.
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Bacon said on X: "There were other victims in this cyber operation. The Communist government in China are not our friends and are very active in conducting cyber espionage."
Plain and simple, the Chinese Communist Party is a bully. I will not back down. I will always stand up for freedom and human rights around the world. — Rep. Don Bacon 🇺🇸 (@RepDonBacon) August 15, 2023
According to a Chinese Embassy spokesperson, the development is a "smear" and part of a "groundless narrative". The spokesperson also added that the US government had undercut China's sovereignty with recent arms sales to Taiwan, a self-governed island claimed by China.
(With inputs from agencies)
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