US Treasury suffers major cyber attack by China backed hackers [Video]

THE US TREASURY has said that a China state-sponsored hacker was behind a cyber breach resulting in access to some of its workstations.

The US Treasury is the United States federal department incharge of finance. 

In a letter to congress, seen by AFP, the agency said the incident happened earlier this month, when the hackers compromised a third-party cybersecurity service provider and was able to remotely access the Treasury workstations and some unclassified documents.

Treasury contacted the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency after it was alerted of the situation by its provider BeyondTrust, and has been working with law enforcement partners to ascertain the impact.

“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 department’s spokesperson said.

In its letter to the leadership of the Senate Banking Committee, the Treasury said: “Based …