US ambassador to Beijing targeted in Chinese cyber-attack – report

Nicholas Burns’ emails reportedly accessed in hack that exploited flaw in Microsoft system and took Washington by surpriseThe US ambassador to Beijing, Nicholas Burns, was reportedly one of the American officials whose emails were accessed in a recent Chinese hacking attack which took Washington by surprise with its sophistication.Another target was Daniel Kritenbrink, the assistant secretary of state for east Asia, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday. When the attack was first di