Talking about the cyber operation which happened before recent reports of breach of Burns' email account, Blinken had said: “I can’t discuss details of our response. During his recent visit to China, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken had a meeting with top Chinese diplomat Wang Yi in which a cyberattack on US government email systems, including the State Department, was discussed.Ī hacking incident which was discovered just before Blinken's visit was targeted on unclassified US government email system, which is operated by US officials with the assumption that it can be hacked. In recent years, cyberattacks have been one of the major reasons of bad blood between the two countries. The latest report adds to similar incident which involved the breach of email account of Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo by Chinese hackers, last week. US Ambassador to China Nicholas Burns(AFP) The report says that email account of Daniel Kritenbrink, the assistant secretary of State for East Asia, was also compromised in the targeted cyberattack. US ambassador to China Nicholas Burns' email account was hacked into by Chinese hackers recently, according to a report by CNN.
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