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China Hacks the U.S. Treasury
Key information. The rest devolves into a serious rant, as the writer is seriously offended by the whole situation. [PJMedia] On Monday, a report was released that a Chinese hacker gained access to the U.S. Treasury Department. According to the report, this was a state-sponsored attack, and the hacker was affiliated with the Chinese government. Although the announcement was made on Monday, Fox News said officials learned about the breach on December 8. A spokesperson for the department said:Once Treasury was alerted by the service provider, we immediately contacted Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and have worked with law enforcement partners across the government to ascertain the impact of this incident. The compromised BeyondTrust service has been taken offline and there is no evidence indicating the threat actor has continued access to Treasury systems or information. The Post Millennial reports that in a letter to politicians, the department explained that the hacker infiltrated Treasury's system through "access to a key used by the vendor to secure a cloud-based service used to remotely provide technical support for Treasury Departmental Offices (DO) end users. With access to the stolen key, the threat actor was able to override the service’s security, remotely access certain Treasury DO user workstations, and access certain unclassified documents maintained by those users." In that same letter, the department said that it takes threats against its systems and data "very seriously," adding that it has bolstered its cyber defense systems over the last four years. Really? Define "seriously." The breach is being referred to as a "major incident." Are we expected to believe that the same government that could have found and arrested a hypothetical J6 grandmother playing shuffleboard at The Villages could not have foreseen this potential attack? The same government that did track down people who were at the Capitol that day and did nothing wrong and were still brought to the Biden administration's brand of justice? No one thought to put in safeguards against this eventuality? Inevitably, someone will bring up Biden's potential connections to China. The truth is that we will likely never know the extent of the family's corruption, at least in part because multiple people likely benefited from it. That said, this is what you get when DEI and CRT become national policy. Related: U.S. Treasury Department: 2024-12-21 Report: Young African Women Lured to Work in Russian Drone Factories U.S. Treasury Department: 2024-11-17 Millions Of Dollars Meant For Boko Haram Fight Invested In U.S. Luxury Real Estate Tied To Ex-Nigerian Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki, Allies U.S. Treasury Department: 2024-10-18 Time to expose Hamas' 'civilian' network in Europe Posted by: trailing wife 2024-12-31 |
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