The US Treasury Department was hacked

Hugo Herrera / The Verge The US Treasury Department suffered a “major” security incident after a China state-sponsored hacker broke into the third-party remote management software it uses, as reported earlier by The New York Times.
In a letter to lawmakers seen by The Verge, the Treasury Department said BeyondTrust, the company behind its remote management software, notified the agency of a breach on December 8th.
The threat actor stole a key used by BeyondTrust “to secure a cl