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Trump, Biden teams grappling with getting COVID-19 vaccine early • 13 min read 1st COVID-19 vaccinations expected to be given in US Health care workers, seniors and first responders will be among the first to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in the U.S.Manuel Balce Ceneta/Pool via Reuters As the first COVID-19 vaccine authorized in the United States rolled out across the country this week, senior Trump administration officials weighed whether it would be worth it for them to essentially jump the line and get publicly inoculated in order to set an example for possibly skeptical Americans,...

Dec 14, 2020 00:52 GMTFXStreet News There has been a breach at the US Treasury and it could spark up a prolonged geopolitical risk for financial markets. The FBI is investigating a breach into the Treasury and Commerce departments by a group known as Cozy Bear, which also hacked the Democratic National Committee in 2015, as per the Washington Post. Reuters first reported that hackers had been monitoring internal emails at the departments, specifically targeting an agency in Commerce responsible for US telecommunications policy. It is said to be by state-backed hackers, centring on Russia. ...

Suspected Russian hackers broke into federal agencies, according to US officials 179 shares 14/12/2020 - 01:42 The US Treasury Department in Washington, DC, on July 22, 2019. © Alastair Pike, AFP (file photo) 4 min Hackers believed to be working for Russia have been monitoring internal email traffic at the US Treasury Department and an agency that decides internet and telecommunications policy, according to people familiar with the matter. Advertising Read more There is conce...

A Department of Commerce spokesperson confirmed the hack. "We can confirm there has been a breach in one of our bureaus. We have asked CISA and the FBI to investigate, and we cannot comment further at this time," a spokesperson for Commerce told NBC News. The hack was first reported by Reuters. The hackers are suspected of targeting the Treasury Department as well as the Commerce Department's National Telecommunications and Information Administration, or NTIA, a U.S. agency that is tasked with crafting internet and telecommunications policy, Reuters reported. The elaborate cyber hack that w...

Washington Hackers believed to be working for Russia have been monitoring internal email traffic at the United States Treasury Department and an agency that decides internet and telecommunications policy, according to people familiar with the matter. There is concern within the U.S. intelligence community that the hackers who targeted Treasury and the Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration used a similar tool to break into other government agencies, according to four people briefed on the matter. The people did not say which other agencies. Three of...