Hackers hacked into the US Treasury system.

Behind the attack is a cyber group supported by an unidentified foreign government, writes Reuters.

Hackers have broken into the system of the United States Department of the Treasury and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration. The data was stolen, Reuters reported, citing informed sources on December 13.

Behind the attack is a cyber group backed by an unidentified foreign government, agency sources say.

It should be noted that the United States government has already received reports of the incident.

“All necessary steps are being taken to identify and eliminate any potential problems associated with this situation,” said National Security Council spokesman John Ullitt.

Due to the incident, a meeting of the National Security Council was held at the White House, a source said.

Previously, Korrespondent.net said that cybersecurity threats in 2021 will be associated with the massive transition to remote work, using home appliances for corporate tasks.

On December 10, it became known that the European Medicines Agency was the target of a cyberattack by unknown attackers. They got access to some documents about the COVID-19 coronavirus vaccine from Pfizer and BioNTech.

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