Chinese hackers breach US Treasury computer system.

[jimintoronto]

A major computer attack on the US Treasury Department's computers has been reported. link.

MSN

JIM.

 

[dilettante]

Lots of shame to go around:

 

[MrJim]

I'm pretty sure at this point pretty much everybody's personal information including SSNs is floating around out on the Dark Web.

I froze my credit reports with all three major credit reporting agencies and two minor ones that are used mainly for opening utility and phone accounts.

 

[Nathan]

Since the 1990s U.S. Gov't agencies have been under constant 24/7 attack from foreign nation-state hackers.

The Treasury notified the Senate Banking Committee of the breach in a letter viewed by several media outlets. It called the breach a “major incident”. Department policy categorises nation state hacking incidents as “major”, according to the letter.
The department didn’t say how many workstations had been accessed or what kind of documents the hackers could have obtained. But in its letter to lawmakers, the department said “at this time there is no evidence indicating the threat actor has continued access to Treasury information”.

...the battle continues.