Chinese hackers breached senior US officials emails in May and June . The hackers had breached the email accounts of US Ambassador to China Nicholas Burns and Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo in advance of Raimondos trip to China . Microsoft said Wednesday that it had corrected the technical issues that allowed the hackers to obtain the cryptographic key from its internal system . The alleged Chinese hacking campaign came at a particularly delicate time in USChina relations as Secretary of State Antony Blinken prepared to make a highstakes visit to China in June . Chinese government officials have responded to the hacking allegations by accusing the US government of conducting cyberattacks against China . The Department of Homeland Securitybacked Cyber Safety Review Board a panel of US government and private experts is investigating the root causes of the breach . The company said it is continuously hardening systems as part of its own defense in depth strategy the company said in a blog post on its own website .Comments are open to comment on the breach.Comments are being made by CNN Opinion Opinion Opinion on Facebook and on Twitter and comment by @CNN Tech Heroin.com/Heroes and Technology Heroin iReport. Back to Back to the page you came from iReport: Share your story. Please submit your photos and videos of the latest iReport on iReport/Show your photos, please submit your best iReportÂÂÂÂÂ. Share your photos. Please share your comments, comments, photos and photos, photos, videos and videos from the comments, images and videos. Please Share your snapshots and videos, snapshots and snapshots of your snapshots, snapshots, images, snapshots of the snapshots and photos. Share them, snapshots from the page/tweets, snapshots. Please send photos, snapshots/images.
Chinese hack of Microsoft engineer led to breach of US officials’ emails, company says .
