Chinese hackers infiltrated US Treasury Secretary's PC — attackers had access to over 400 PCs

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As reported last week, Chinese hackers infiltrated the U.S. Department of Treasury and gained access to several users' workstations. However, according to Bloomberg, the infiltration was more severe than initially reported, as hackers managed to access systems belonging to Secretary Janet Yellen and other top officials.

The perpetrators reportedly accessed files belonging to Secretary Janet Yellen and other high-ranking officials. Over 400 computers and over 3,000 unclassified files were compromised, exposing sensitive information related to sanctions, law enforcement, and international affairs. The scale of compromised systems and files far exceeds initial reports.

Anton Shilov
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Anton Shilov is a contributing writer at Tom’s Hardware. Over the past couple of decades, he has covered everything from CPUs and GPUs to supercomputers and from modern process technologies and latest fab tools to high-tech industry trends.

  • Marco-
    What? Do they have toddlers looking after their cyber security?
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  • dCasualGamer
    I'd always seen news that the US network being hacked by the Chinese. Utilities, politician's PC, treasury are all had been hacked. But I have never heard news about the reverse. Is the US hacking the Chinese system as well ? We don't hear about it because US has the moral high ground and doesn't want to hack the Chinese, US tried but failed or US has been doing it for ages and just not telling anyone ?
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