It is believed that several thousand emails may have been accessed. Senior sources in the Government have confirmed to The Daily Telegraph that the espionage occurred over more than a month, beginning in February.
Four separate government sources confirmed that they had been told Chinese intelligence agencies were among a list of foreign hackers that are under suspicion.
An investigation is now believed to be under way by ASIO after Australian intelligence agencies were tipped off to the cyber-spy raid by US intelligence officials within the Central Intelligence Agency and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
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