Senator Ron Wyden, who sits on both the Senate Intelligence and Finance Committees said after a closed-door briefing that the hack at the US Treasury Department "appears to be significant." "Additionally, the hackers broke into systems in the Departmental Offices division of Treasury, home to the department's highest-ranking officials," said Wyden. "Treasury still does not know all of the actions taken by hackers, or precisely what information was stolen," he added. So far officials have said the hackers broke into computers at the State Department, Commerce Department, Treasury, Homeland Security Department, and the National Institutes of Health. The government "has now suffered a breach that seems to involve skilled hackers stealing encryption keys from (government) servers," he said.

Source: Dhaka Tribune December 22, 2020 09:00 UTC