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Chinese hackers breached Treasury Department workstations, documents in ‘major cybersecurity incident’

Posted on December 31, 2024 by Dissent

Ryan Knappenberger reports:

 The U.S. Department of the Treasury said on Monday that Chinese-backed hackers had breached its workstations and gained access to unclassified documents earlier this month in what it described as a “major cybersecurity incident.”

The announcement comes just over a month after the Senate Intelligence Committee revealed recent Chinese hacks into the U.S. telecommunications system resulting in access to telephone conversations and text messages, potentially those of high-profile targets like Donald Trump and JD Vance.

In a letter to lawmakers informing them of the breach, the Treasury Department’s Assistant Secretary for Management Aditi Hardikar said the department had been notified on Dec. 8 by a third-party security software company, BeyondTrust, that the hackers obtained a security key with that allowed them to remotely gain access to certain Treasury workstations and documents on them.

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