BBC News – US Treasury says it was hacked by China

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3weye2j0e7o

26 comments
  1. Could be very impactful leaks for the stock market. Can you imagine a “Fort Knox is empty” kinda news?

  2. Might as well have a war. The enemy presents itself and been on a war path already 

  3. And risk more moderately ineffective sanctions? Are they mad?

    It’s almost as if we’re in a scenario where China and Russia feel they can do whatever they want.

    /s

  4. China and Russia have hacked into most of the US infrastructure. Look at ATT the other day.

    No one is going to do shit about it either I bet. Look at the F35 plans china already hacked and make their own knockoff.

  5. Stuff like this is why I don’t like the idea of governments having bitcoin, or crypto reserves.  Someone hacks a bank and moves money around, the banks just agree to reverse everything.  You hack crypto and move it, that shit is gone-gone.

    I know this was “just” employee documents being accessed, but my unease remains.

  6. I like that the hacker exploited a loophole thru a 3rd party service called BeyondTrust

  7. Someone give them the memo that there’s nothing in the treasury to steal.

  8. Of course they wanted the secrets to achieving 36.1T in debt.

  9. Maybe it’s time this country fucking did something before we get fucked up by something like this

  10. Still waiting on one of these fucks to erase everyone’s debt.

  11. The weakest link in IT security is the human link. Someone hasn’t done their job at the US treasury to vet the third party before giving a key out…

  12. Who’s in charge of the security infrastructure in this country? Good God my dude

  13. This is probably why the US was so adamant that the EU not get fooled into letting Chinese telecommunications system in. Yes, it’s affordable and works great but it comes at a cost.

  14. Can’t wait for literally nothing to be done about it

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