Agency describes intrusion as ‘major cyber security incident’
A Chinese state-sponsored actor hacked the US Treasury department through a third-party service provider in a “major cyber security incident”, the agency said on Monday. In a letter to the Senate banking committee seen by the Financial Times, the Treasury department said it had been informed on December 8 by software company BeyondTrust that a hacker had breached several remote government workstations by obtaining a security key and had in turn gained access to unclassified documents on them.
“We will continue to work with both private and public sector partners to protect our financial system from threat actors,” the person added. Liu Pengyu, the spokesperson for the Chinese embassy in Washington, said on Monday: “We hope that relevant parties will adopt a professional and responsible attitude when characterising cyber incidents, basing their conclusions on sufficient evidence rather than unfounded speculation and accusations.
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