Nathaniel Fick, the nation’s top-ranking cybersecurity diplomat, said over the weekend that his personal Twitter account was hacked.
Fick, who serves as ambassador at large to the State Department’s Bureau of Cyberspace and Digital Policy, revealed news of the hacking in a tweet from his personal Twitter on Saturday evening, ostensibly when he regained access to the account. He called the incident one of the “perils of the job.”
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Fick does not regularly tweet from his personal account. He instead promotes his work through an official State Department account. The diplomat did not share any additional details on the hack, such as who was responsible or if hackers had made any unauthorized posts, but there did not appear to be any broader fallout from the incident.
State Department representatives did not respond to the Washington Examiner’s request for comment.
The hack comes as Fick, who was sworn into office last September after being nominated by President Joe Biden to lead the newly formed bureau in June, is set to travel this week to Seoul to discuss cybersecurity cooperation with the South Korean government. The U.S. and South Korea share a common cyberspace foe: North Korea, which operates a robust hacking infrastructure despite being thought of as technologically lacking.
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Biden established the new bureau as part of a larger effort to make tech issues an intrinsic part of U.S. foreign policy.
