A Treasury official says they were informed that a threat actor used a stolen key to remotely access certain Treasury workstations and unclassified documents.
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00:00The U.S. Treasury breached by Chinese-backed hackers.
00:04In what's being labeled a major incident, a Treasury official says they were informed
00:09by a third-party software service provider on December 8th that a threat actor used a
00:15stolen key to remotely access certain Treasury workstations and unclassified documents.
00:22The impacted workstations were taken offline and the attack later blocked.
00:27A spokesperson for the Chinese Foreign Ministry denied the accusation, adding, quote, China
00:33has always opposed all forms of cyber attacks and we are even more opposed to spreading
00:38false information about China for political purposes.