Hacking by a Chinese group: the United States blames Microsoft for a “cascade of errors”. The operation, which was first discovered by the US State Department in June 2023, included the hacking of official and personal emails of Commerce Minister Gina Raimondo and the US Ambassador to China, Nicholas Burns.

“The Commission considers that this intrusion could have been avoided and should never have occurred,” asserts the report, which highlights “the cascade of avoidable errors by Microsoft which allowed this intrusion to succeed”