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US looking into possible Treasury Department computer hack by The Associated Press Last Updated Dec 13, 2020 at 3:56 pm EDT WASHINGTON — Hackers apparently got into computers at the U.S. Treasury Department and possibly other federal agencies, touching off a government response involving the National Security Council. Security Council spokesperson John Ullyot said Sunday that the government is aware of reports about the hacks. “We are taking all necessary steps to identify and remedy any possible issues related to this situation,” he wrote in an email. Reuters reported Sunday that a gro...

AFP US media reports also said the FBI was investigating a group working for the Russian foreign intelligence service, SVR, and that breaches had been taking place for months. File picture for illustration. Police officers wearing face masks patrol on the empty Red Square, with the St. Basil's Cathedral, left, and Kremlin's Spasskaya Tower, right, in the background, in Moscow on March 30, 2020, during a lockdown of the city to stop the spread of the epidemic Covid-19. Picture: Dimitar DILKOFF /...

By Christopher Bing The hack is so serious it led to a National Security Council meeting at the White House on Saturday, said one of the people familiar with the matter. U.S. officials have not said much publicly beyond the Commerce Department confirming there was a breach at one of its agencies and that they asked the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the FBI to investigate. National Security Council spokesman John Ullyot added that they “are taking all necessary steps to identify and remedy any possible issues related to this situation.” The U.S. government has not pu...

Hackers have broken into the networks of the US Treasury and Commerce departments just days after a leading global cybersecurity firm announced it had been breached in an attack that experts said bore the hallmarks of Russian tradecraft. The FBI and the Department of Homeland Security’s cybersecurity arm are investigating what experts and former officials said appeared to be a large-scale penetration of US government agencies — apparently the same months-long cyberespionage campaign that also afflicted the prominent cybersecurity firm FireEye. “This can turn into one of the most impactf...

Report: Treasury Hacked by Group Backed by Foreign Government 14 Dec 2020 A report published on Sunday revealed that data stored by the United States Treasury was compromised by a sophisticated hacking group backed by a foreign government. The hackers also infiltrated the Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration. The National Security Council launched an investigation into the incident after a meeting on Saturday at the White House. According to a report by Reuters, a sophisticated hacker group has stolen information from the United States Treasury a...