Shock Report: China May Have Had Access to Sensitive US Military Systems Since Obama Admin

WASHINGTON, D.C. – A new investigation reveals China may have had access into sensitive U.S. military systems for over a decade thanks to a major federal contractor.

Beijing's potential "in" to DOD networks didn't come in the form of a cyber-attack, or a rogue agent inside the government, but rather Microsoft employees based in China, operating under the oversight of under-trained U.S.-based supervisors.

"These Microsoft engineers based in mainland China were feeding code to what were called Digital Escorts. So these were DOD employees with security clearances. They're able to take the code that was produced by Microsoft engineers and then put it directly into DOD systems," said Jack Burnham, a research analyst with the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.

While these Microsoft employees are not known Chinese agents, according to a ProPublica investigation, many of the digital escorts tasked with patching their work into DOD systems, report being ill-equipped to understand the code they receive.

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