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US Treasury Says Chinese Hackers Breached Systems And Stole Documents

3 months agoTue, 31 Dec 2024 13:08:21 GMT
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US Treasury Says Chinese Hackers Breached Systems And Stole Documents

Chinese state-sponsored hackers allegedly breached the US Treasury Department’s systems, accessing employee workstations and unclassified documents.

The Treasury Department classified the breach as a “major incident” and notified lawmakers, and said it is working with the FBI and other agencies to assess the hack’s impacts.

However, China denied any involvement, calling the accusation “baseless” and saying it “consistently opposes all forms of hacking”.

This incident adds to a series of several security breaches in the US attributed to China, including a telecoms hack in December.

Officials said the compromised third-party service – called BeyondTrust – has since been taken offline. There was no evidence to suggest the hacker had continued to access Treasury Department information since, according to the statement.

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The department said it had been working with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and third-party forensic investigators to determine the overall impact.

Officials said initial investigations suggested the hack appeared to have been carried out by “a China-based Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) actor”.

A spokesperson told the BBC that the Treasury was alerted to the hack on December 8; suspicious activity was first detected on December 2.

According to the company, the suspicious activity was first spotted on 2 December, but it took three days for the company to determine it had been hacked.

The spokesperson said the hackers were able to remotely access several Treasury user workstations and some unclassified documents that were kept by those users.

The hackers are believed to have been seeking information rather than trying to steal funds.

China’s foreign ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning denied the US claims, telling a news briefing these were “baseless accusations lacking evidence”. Said Mao:

China consistently opposes all forms of hacking and firmly rejects the dissemination of false information targeting China for political purposes.

The US has not provided concrete evidence linking China to the hack.

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9 Comments

Tintin · 3 months ago
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Concerned · 3 months ago
China is already a superpower. America is already afraid of these guys whose eyes may seem closed but can see much better than us. They think beyond our reasoning capacity. Chaiva chako chaa changu. Chaiva changu chaa changu- as the saying goes when they speak.
chizman · 3 months ago
eyes seem closed kkkkkkmmm
Joesby · 3 months ago
they're showing their superiority in terms of technology
Disciple of KACOU PHILIPPE · 3 months ago
ma Jews ayo
§hûmb@ · 3 months ago
Chinese varikumberi pa technology
Ediots · 3 months ago
2nd hack of US info systems by China in 2024 alone. desperate indeed. kuno Ediots give away sensitive info to China,Belarus and Russia on a silver platter
nhotsi · 3 months ago
Not really desperate but very sophisticated interms of technology.They are proving to the world that they are advanced more than the super powers.

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