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04-19-2007, 03:01 PM
A federal official says a break-in targeting State Department computers last summer occurred after a department employee in Asia opened a mysterious e-mail that allowed hackers inside the agency's network.

In the fist public account of the intrusion, State Department official Donald Reid describes an elaborate ploy by sophisticated international hackers who exploited a design flaw in Microsoft software to gain entry to State Department computers.

For More Information: http://www.publicradio.org/columns/futuretense/2007/04/19.shtml