30-12-2024 23:24 via metro.co.uk

US Treasury hacked by China in ‘major incident’

China-backed hackers remotely accessed US Treasury Department workstations and unclassified documents (Picture: Getty Images)Chinese hackers have accessed US documents in a ‘major cybersecurity incident’.The hackers remotely broke into several Treasury Department workstations and unclassified documents after getting past a third-party software service provider, according to the federal agency on Monday.Hackers ‘gained access to a key used by the vendor to secure a cloud-based
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