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Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) alleged that hackers may also have stolen essential encryption keys
US Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) alleged late Monday that dozens of email accounts at the US Treasury Department were compromised in the recent wide-ranging espionage campaign against US government agencies perpetrated by powerful hackers.
According to Reuters, Wyden’s office said that Senate Finance Committee staff were briefed that the hack of the Treasury Department appears to have been a significant one, “the full depth of which is not known.”Play Video
Wyden, the most senior Democrat on the committee, said that Microsoft notified the agency that dozens of email accounts had been compromised and that the hackers also penetrated the systems at Treasury’s Departmental Offices division, which is home to its top officials.