US Government E-mails Hijacked and Diverted to China
"Literally loads of Internet traffic from the Department of Defense, from all the military services, from around the federal government, and from around Congress, got routed … through a China Telecom server.”
By Matthew Robertson
WASHINGTON—A state-owned telecommunications company in China diverted massive amounts of sensitive United States government e-mail traffic in April. With that data, state actors could obtain important information and learn better ways of “social engineering” fake, virus-laden e-mails to further infiltrate U.S. government computer networks, according to a recent press briefing by the United States-China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCC).