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Sen. Tim Scott , ranking member of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, and Rep. French Hill , vice chair of the House Financial Services Committee, on Thursdayto Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen demanding more details of a cyberattack on Treasury’s computer systems allegedly perpetrated by hackers linked to the Chinese government.
“As such, the fact that a CCP-sponsored APT actor was able to access Treasury’s information systems is unacceptable and raises serious questions about the protocols for safeguarding sensitive federal government information from future cybersecurity incidents,” the letter concluded.Congress that the intruders were able to steal security code keys from a third-party software provider called BeyondTrust, which detected the theft and warned the Treasury Department on December 8.
Sen. Scott and Rep. Hill asked Yellen for a briefing, no later than January 10, that would provide Congress with more details about the incident, including exactly which Chinese APT group was involved, a full inventory of the information accessed by the hackers, and if the Treasury Department was aware of any security vulnerabilities with BeyondTrust software before the incident.of U.S. computer systems by hackers linked to the Chinese government.
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