The U.S. government was hit with a seemingly new kind of cyber attack (or intrusion ) that gave hackers access to sensitive email systems possibly as early as March. The attack was only discovered this weekend, according to Reuters, whose cybersecurity reporter Chris Bing broke the story Sunday afternoon. And its discovery was “so serious it led to a National Security Council meeting at the White House on Saturday,” Bing reports.
Rewind: You may remember last week the cybersecurity firm FireEye announced that it had been hacked by an unknown “nation-state.” The new discovery of these federal-level breaches is the result of FireEye’s post-attack forensics, which you can read in full, here.
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