Report: Chinese Hackers Have Been Reading Obama Administration's Private Emails Since 2010

NBC News: China Read Emails of Top U.S. Officials

China's cyber spies have accessed the private emails of "many" top Obama administration officials, according to a senior U.S. intelligence official and a top secret document obtained by NBC News, and have been doing so since at least April 2010.

The email grab -- first codenamed "Dancing Panda" by U.S. officials, and then "Legion Amethyst" -- was detected in April 2010, according to a top secret NSA briefing from 2014. The intrusion into personal emails was still active at the time of the briefing and, according to the senior official, is still going on.

In 2011, Google disclosed that the private gmail accounts of some U.S. officials had been compromised, but the briefing shows that private email accounts from other providers were compromised as well.

WNU Editor: I would just love to know what they are reading.

More News On Reports That Chinese Hackers Have Been Reading Obama Administration's Private Emails Since 2010

China hacked private emails of U.S. officials since 2010, NBC reports -- Reuters
Report: Chinese hackers breached top U.S. officials' private emails -- Mashable
Senior US official: China has been accessing the Obama administration's private emails since 2010 -- Business Insider
Chinese hackers have spied on the personal emails of Obama officials for at least 5 years -- The Next Web
China Is Reportedly Reading the Obama Administration's Personal Emails -- Gizmodo