Chinese state-sponsored hackers infiltrated U.S. naval infrastructure, secretary of the Navy says...

The U.S. Navy has been hit by the Chinese state-sponsored hack that Microsoft
disclosed Wednesday, Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro told CNBC’s Morgan Brennan on Thursday.

Del Toro said the U.S. Navy “has been impacted” by the cyberattacks, adding that it was “no surprise that China has been behaving in this manner, not just for the last couple years, but for decades.”

He declined to provide further detail on the incursion but suggested that the Navy had been contending with cyberattacks like this for years.

Microsoft issued a warning Wednesday as did intelligence agencies including the National Security Agency, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, and the cybersecurity agencies of four other nations. The warnings alerted corporate and public enterprises that a sophisticated Chinese state-backed hacking group had successfully exploited a vulnerability in a popular cybersecurity suite.