Security News > 2020 > December > SolarWinds hackers breached US Treasury officials’ email accounts
US Senator Ron Wyden said that dozens of US Treasury email accounts were compromised by the threat actors behind the SolarWinds hack.
The senator also added that the SolarWinds hackers also breached the systems in the Departmental Offices division of the US Treasury, a department that is the "Home to the department's highest-ranking officials."
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin also told CNBC when asked about the Treasury being hacked that Treasury has not yet found evidence of compromise of classified systems.
Finally, after years of government officials advocating for encryption backdoors, and ignoring warnings from cybersecurity experts who said that encryption keys become irresistible targets for hackers, the USG has now suffered a breach that seems to involve skilled hackers stealing encryption keys from USG servers.
After the SolarWinds supply chain compromise was discovered, multiple organizations disclosed that they were breached by the hackers including FireEye, Microsoft, and VMware.
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