Chinese hackers blamed for breach of Norwegian parliament email accounts
The Norwegian government on Monday formally attributed a breach of email accounts associated with the Norwegian parliament, or the Storting, earlier this year to Chinese hackers involved in the exploitation of vulnerabilities in Microsoft's Exchange Server.
The Storting disclosed in March that email systems had been breached as part of the Microsoft Exchange Server incident, which involved hackers exploiting vulnerabilities to compromise thousands of organizations around the world.
"This was a very serious incident affecting our most important democratic institution," Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs Ine Eriksen Søreide said in a statement. "Following a detailed intelligence assessment, it is our view that the vulnerabilities have been exploited by actors operating out of China."
The attribution came the same day the United States, the United Kingdom, the European Union and other nations jointly attributed the exploitation of the Microsoft vulnerabilities to Chinese-linked hackers.
Eriksen Søreide confirmed that the Storting was a victim of this exploitation, and that the Chinese Embassy had been contacted in order to "raise the issue directly."
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