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First coronavirus vaccines roll out as officials share months-long timeline for immunization effort By Paulina Firozi, Meryl Kornfield and Josh Dawsey The Washington Post,Updated December 14, 2020, 1:43 a.m. Email to a Friend UPS employees moved one of two shipping containers containing the first shipments of the Pfizer and BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine across a ramp at UPS Worldport in Louisville, Kentucky, on Sunday.Pool/Getty WASHINGTON - The first vials of the coronavirus vaccine were shipped Sunday, paving the way for inoculations to begin across the country this week. Nearly 3 million doses...

The U.S. Treasury Department, shown here in 2019, has been hacked along with the U.S. Commerce Department, according to reports. Russia is suspected, but denies involvement. The U.S. government has acknowledged a breach and says it is investigating to make a full assessment. Patrick Semansky / AP Updated at 10:22 a.m. ET Russian hackers working for the Kremlin are believed to be behind an attack into U.S. government computer systems at the departments of Treasury and Commerce that may have lasted months before it was detected, according to U.S. officials and media reports. The hackers re...

Suspected Russian hackers spied on US Treasury e-mails — sources December 14, 2020 | 1:23 pm WASHINGTON — Hackers believed to be working for Russia have been monitoring internal e-mail traffic at the US Treasury and Commerce departments, according to people familiar with the matter, adding they feared the hacks uncovered so far may be the tip of the iceberg. 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. US officials have not said much publicly beyond the Commerce Department confir...

The headquarters of the Russian military intelligence service GRU in Moscow (Pavel Golovkin/AP) UPDATE, DEC 18: US officials have warned of “a grave risk to the Federal Government” after discovering more hacking attacks on Government agencies and corporate networks. The warning was issued on Thursday after intelligence agencies assessed that hackers used a a far wider variety of tools than previously known to penetrate government systems. The analysis points to hacking beyond known targets such as the Pentagon; Departments of Homeland Security, Treasury, and Commerce; and the National Nu...

Justice Department now says its email accounts were “potentially accessed” in Russia hack Vox.com 1/6/2021 Sara Morrison © Mladen Antonov/AFP via Getty Images A joint task force of US security agencies says that Russia is “likely” the actor behind the massive malware attack on federal agencies last year. Open Sourced logo Federal security agencies have finally confirmed that the massive hack of government and private computer systems that was uncovered in mid-December was likely Russian in origin. A statement from a joint task force issued January 5 was one of th...