5 reasons why a top Chinese hacker gang and their friends could wreak havoc on US [Video]

You may never have heard of Threat Actor Storm-0558, but this top Chinese hacker gang broke into the State Department computer systems via Microsoft Exchange Online last spring and read emails for several weeks before Secretary of State Anthony Blinken’s visit to Beijing. They also got to Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo, U.S. Ambassador to China Nicholas Burns, Rep. Don Bacon, R-Ill., and 391 other Americans plus other government offices in the U.S. and Europe.

Then the State Department caught Storm-0558 in June, and Microsoft mitigated the attack.  End of story?  Not quite. 

A scathing report on the incident released Apr. 2 by the Department of Homeland Security’s Cyber Review Board has ignited a firestorm. According to the Board, “this intrusion was preventable and should never have occurred.” Worse, experts are still not sure how China pulled off the key part of the deception required to slip in. That touched off fears for data …