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The United States said that Chinese hackers were able to steal documents from the Treasury Department in a major cyber attack early Tuesday morning.
Although the authorities did not provide details on the number of workstations that were hacked or the nature of the stolen documents, the Treasury Department confirmed in a letter to Congress that the hackers were not able to access deep information about the department and its systems. According to what was published by the Euronews website in Brussels
In a statement issued by its spokesperson, the department confirmed that it "takes seriously the threats targeting its systems and the data it holds," noting that an investigation has been opened to determine the nature of the hack and the resulting losses in cooperation with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), in addition to other private sector partners.
In early December, the United States announced that it had been subjected to the "Salt Typhoon" campaign after receiving information that its communications devices had been hacked by China. This campaign allowed Beijing to access text messages and phone conversations of an unknown number of Americans. At least nine companies in Washington have been affected by the campaign, according to a White House official.

In mid-November, federal investigations into Chinese government efforts to hack into U.S. telecommunications networks uncovered a “broad and significant” cyberespionage campaign aimed at stealing information from Americans working in government and politics, the FBI said at the time.

The bureau said hackers linked to Beijing were able to breach the networks of “several” telecommunications companies, obtain customer call records, and access the private communications of “a limited number of individuals,” according to a joint statement from the FBI and the Federal Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.

The bureau did not identify any of the individuals targeted, but noted that most were “primarily involved in government or political activities.” The hackers also sought to copy “certain information that was subject to U.S. law enforcement requests under court orders,” suggesting an attempt to hack into software subject to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). Theft of technological and government information
These warnings come after several high-profile hacking incidents that U.S. authorities have linked to China, which are part of efforts to steal technological and government information, as well as targeting critical infrastructure such as the power grid.
In September, the FBI announced that it had disrupted a large-scale Chinese hacking operation known as “Flax Typhoon,” which involved installing malware on more than 200,000 consumer devices. These devices were used to create a massive network of infected computers, or “botnets.”