Chinese state-sponsored hackers broke into the U.S. Treasury Department this month and stole documents from its workstations, according to a letter to lawmakers, opens new tab that was provided to Reuters on Monday.
The hackers compromised third-party cybersecurity service provider BeyondTrust and were able to access unclassified documents, the letter said, calling it a "major incident."
According to the letter, hackers "gained access to a key used by the vendor to secure a cloud-based service used to remotely provide technical support for Treasury Departmental Offices (DO) end users. With access to the stolen key, the threat actor was able to override the service's security, remotely access certain Treasury DO user workstations, and access certain unclassified documents maintained by those users."
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They don't actually say what they stole, just "unclassified docs". Also some r-slur brought Trump into this, because of course.
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If it's unclassified docs then it's a
, if you've ever worked in government they classify everything they can and make a big deal about irrelevant security breaches. If it's unclassified then the ChiComs will have access to flirty emails and teams messages along with emails about the break room microwave has been removed until people stop using it to reheat fish
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