China Reads Emails of Top U.S. Officials (and doing it since 2010)

China's cyber spies have accessed the private emails of "many" top Obama administration officials, according to a senior U.S. intelligence official and a top secret document obtained by NBC News, and have been doing so since at least April 2010.

The email grab -- first codenamed "Dancing Panda" by U.S. officials, and then "Legion Amethyst" -- was detected in April 2010, according to a top secret NSA briefing from 2014. The intrusion into personal emails was still active at the time of the briefing and, according to the senior official, is still going on.

In 2011, Google disclosed that the private gmail accounts of some U.S. officials had been compromised, but the briefing shows that private email accounts from other providers were compromised as well.

The government email accounts assigned to the officials, however, were not hacked because they are more secure, says the senior U.S. intelligence official...


An NSA slide shows the organization of the Chinese government’s hacking units,
with separate operations run by the Chinese military and by state security

More...

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/china-read-emails-top-us-officials-n406046?cid=sm_fb

 

Good! If they can, let'em read them. What else is new?

You protect yourself by using your wits, not by hoping the world is ethical.

Also, ya gotta wonder how much spying the U.S. is doing on China? I mean if they're reading Merkel's emails (spying on an ally), you better know they're spying on a rival like china.

Maybe if the gubmint invested more in education, we'd be able to out-spy the chinese and better protect our own data!

 

Nothing new....

 

Top officials... that's new. They aren't low-level govt employees.

 

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