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DoJ says SolarWinds hackers breached its Office 365 system and read email

Posted on January 7, 2021 by Dissent

Dan Goodin reports:

The US Justice Department has become the latest federal agency to say its network was breached in a long and wide-ranging hack campaign that’s believed to have been backed by the Russian government.

In a terse statement issued Wednesday, Justice Department spokesman Marc Raimondi said that the breach wasn’t discovered until December 24, which is nine days after the the hack campaign came to light.

Read more on Ars Technica.

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