Washington: There was a cyberattack on the US Treasury Department allegedly by a Chinese hacker. The US Treasury Department informed lawmakers on Monday that a Chinese hacker had infiltrated their computer system. A third-party software service provider notified management on December 8 that the hacker gained access to some workstations and documents, CNN reported. The American agency described it as a serious and major accident. The FBI and other agencies are working together to investigate this matter, and according to a CNN report, Aditi Hardikar, US Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Management, wrote in the letter that this incident could be linked to the China-sponsored advanced persistent threat. APT) The pirates are gone. A spokesman for the administration said that the service that was hacked from had been cut off from the Internet. A senior staffer on the House Financial Services Committee told CNN that officials are scheduled to hold a classified briefing on the hack next week.
Hackers have accessed important documents!
The ministry said that the hackers were able to access employees’ workstations and some documents. According to the letter written to the Senate Banking Committee, the third-party software service provider said hackers gained access to the keys used to secure the cloud-based service. It is not clear how many workstations were compromised by the hackers. The administration spokesman said in his statement that the hacker accessed many workstations.
APT, i.e. Advanced Persistent Threat, is a type of cyber attack, where hackers remain hidden in the system for a long time. They secretly steal information and cause damage to the system. These hackers are often supported by governments and have high technical skills. China rejected these accusations and said they were completely baseless. A spokesman for the Chinese Embassy in Washington, D.C., said the allegations are part of a smear campaign. The American agency imposed this without any facts.
