Hackers breached US State Department security / Times, 19 April 2007
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"The US State Department has revealed that hackers stole data from its network after an employee in Asia opened a mysterious e-mail that allowed them to break into the government’s computer system.
The security breach happened last summer but details have not been revealed until now. A senior State Department official said that sophisticated international hackers had used an elaborate ploy to exploit a design flaw in Microsoft software. Consumers using the same software remained vulnerable until months afterward.