Microsoft program was hacked by Chinese hackers, the White House said it was useless to remedy it and urged action

The White House on the 7th urged computer network service providers to take further action to assess whether their systems were targeted in the hacking of Microsoft Corp's email application Outlook, and said that recent software updates still have serious weaknesses.

A White House official said: "This is an active threat that continues to develop, and we urge network operators to take it seriously," and said that US security officials are considering the next steps to be taken after this loophole.

CNN reported on the 7th that the Biden administration is organizing a task force to respond to this hacking attack. A White House official said in a statement that the government is working on "a comprehensive government response."

Although Microsoft released a patch last week to fix the vulnerability of the email program Outlook, this patch still leaves a so-called backdoor that allows others to enter the compromised server and carry out further attacks.

A White House official said: "We continue to emphasize that if servers have been stolen, reinforcement and disaster mitigation are not solutions. The basic thing to do is that any organization with vulnerable servers must take measures to determine whether they have been locked. ."

A source told Reuters that more than 20,000 US organizations have been attacked by hackers. Microsoft accused China of being behind the scenes, but China denied it.