{"id":2384818,"date":"2024-12-30T17:17:02","date_gmt":"2024-12-30T22:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/treasury-says-it-was-hacked-by-chinese-operatives-in-major-incident-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-12-30T17:18:59","modified_gmt":"2024-12-30T22:18:59","slug":"treasury-says-it-was-hacked-by-chinese-operatives-in-major-incident-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/treasury-says-it-was-hacked-by-chinese-operatives-in-major-incident-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Treasury says it was hacked by Chinese operatives in &#8216;major incident&#8217;- Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftreasury-says-it-was-hacked-by-chinese-operatives-in-major-incident-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2384818&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/khymani-james-dumbassery-on-display-just-two-days-before-his-expulsion\/\" title=\"Khymani James displays foolish behavior shortly before being expelled\">provided content includes<\/a> a button labeled \u200c&#8221;Read more&#8230;&#8221; 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Concludes Peacefully Amid Ramped Up Capitol Police Presence\">major incident<\/a>&rsquo;<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1896356\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/treasury\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">U.S. Treasury Department<\/a> is reporting that it was hacked by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/china\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Chinese operatives<\/a> in what it describes as a &ldquo;major incident.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">department publicly acknowledged<\/a> the security breach on Monday via a letter intended to notify lawmakers of the incident.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Based on available indicators, the incident has been attributed to a China state-sponsored Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) actor,&rdquo; the letter states.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">FILE &ndash; The Treasury Department is seen near sunset in Washington, Jan. 18, 2023. (AP Photo\/Jon Elswick, File)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Treasury reports that personnel were first made aware of the breach on Dec. 8 after a third-party firm flagged the illicit access.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese hackers allegedly accessed government employee workstations and obtained non-classified documents through the use of a compromised security key.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;In accordance with Treasury policy, intrusions attributable to an APT are considered a major cybersecurity incident,&rdquo; according to the treasury&rsquo;s letter.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Treasury takes very seriously all threats against our systems, and the data it holds,&rdquo; the department stated. &ldquo;Over the last four years, Treasury has significantly bolstered its cyber defense, and we will continue to work with both private and public sector partners to protect our financial system from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dhs-suggests-opposition-to-covid-19-restrictions-could-make-someone-a-domestic-terrorism-threat\/\" title=\"DHS Suggests Opposition To COVID-19 Restrictions Could Make Someone A Domestic Terrorism Threat\">threat actors<\/a>.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The exact nature of the documents accessed in the hack is not yet known, nor the exact date of the illicit access.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1896356\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1896356\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Treasury reports a major hack by Chinese operatives<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3468,"featured_media":2384819,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/cfius-expansion.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[47625],"class_list":["post-2384818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-treasury-hack-chineseoperatives-cybersecurity-majorincident"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/cfius-expansion.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2384818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3468"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2384818"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2384818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2384822,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2384818\/revisions\/2384822"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2384819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2384818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2384818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2384818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}