The recent email system hacks at the Commerce and State departments, which China may have been engaged in, are the subject of an inquiry, the U.S. House of Representatives Oversight Committee revealed on Wednesday.
Representative James Comer, chair of the committee, and the heads of two subcommittees sought staff briefings from Secretaries of State Antony Blinken and the Department of Commerce by August 9.
“We are also concerned that this attack on federal agencies, including the email account of a senior U.S. government official such as yourself, reflects a new level of skill and sophistication from China’s hackers,” the lawmakers Raimondo stated.
A person with knowledge of the incident claims that Raimondo was one of a number of senior U.S. officials whose emails were stolen at the beginning of this year by a group Microsoft (MSFT.O) believed was based in China.
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