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In 2020, a major cyberattack suspected to have been committed by a group backed by the Russian government penetrated thousands of organizations globally including multiple parts of the United States federal government, leading to a series of data breaches.
June 2015 – United States Office of Personnel Management (OPM) announced that it had been the target of a data breach targeting personnel records. [9] Approximately 22.1 million records were affected, including records related to government employees, other people who had undergone background checks, and their friends and family. [10] [11]
As part of its breach, Salt Typhoon obtained a nearly complete list of phone numbers wiretapped by the United States Department of Justice. Chinese hackers had previously compromised email accounts used by officials in the United States Department of Commerce and State, including secretary of commerce Gina Raimondo. [2]
The US Treasury has been hacked by suspected Chinese actors that accessed government workstations and unclassified documents, officials said. The department made the revelation on Monday after ...
In response to Microsoft’s assessment that China-based hackers were behind the more recent breach of US government email accounts, the Chinese foreign ministry accused Washington of conducting ...
China-based hackers have breached email accounts at two-dozen organizations, including some United States government agencies, in an apparent spying campaign aimed at acquiring sensitive ...
State-sponsored hackers working on behalf of the Chinese government carried out the attack. [4] [7] The data breach consisted of two separate, but linked, attacks. [8] It is unclear when the first attack occurred but the second attack happened on May 7, 2014, when attackers posed as an employee of KeyPoint Government Solutions, a subcontracting ...
The surgical, targeted espionage accessed the email of a small number of individuals at an unspecified number of U.S. agencies and was discovered in mid-June by the State Department, U.S ...