Discussion

• @sangernyt David Sanger on x

  Struck by fact that for 6 weeks now @realDonaldTrump and 100+ Republican members of Congress have been talking about a hack that never happened - of the vote. Total silence on the one that did happen: Russian hackers inside the Fed. govt.'s own agencies. https://www.nytimes.com/.…

• @nakashimae Ellen Nakashima on x

  BREAKING: Russian government spies are behind a broad hacking campaign that has breached U.S. agencies and a top cyber firm https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...

• @bing_chris Chris Bing on x

  Incident comes shortly after Trump administration fired heads of DHS' Cybersecurity Infrastructure Protection Agency. There is also no current top cyber official. Multiple agencies wrapped up in the investigation. Keep an eye on story (updating): https://www.reuters.com/...

• @mmasnick Mike Masnick on x

  Seems like a bad time to have fired the CISA Director. https://twitter.com/...

• @michaelpfreeman Michael Freeman on x

  Didn't Trump fire the government's director of cybersecurity because he didn't like his comments about the election? https://twitter.com/...

• @natsecwatson Ben Watson on x

  “This is a much bigger story than one single agency,” said one of the people familiar with the matter. “This is a huge cyber espionage campaign targeting the U.S. government and its interests.” https://twitter.com/...

• @zackwhittaker Zack Whittaker on x

  The Russian government hackers who breached top cybersecurity firm FireEye are behind a much broader espionage campaign that also compromised the Treasury and Commerce departments and other government agencies. https://twitter.com/...

• @stevekopack Steve Kopack on x

  “The hack is so serious it led to a National Security Council meeting at the White House on Saturday, said one of the people familiar with the matter.” https://twitter.com/...

• @maggiejordanacn Maggie Jordan on x

  Reminder when in July 2017 trump said “Putin and I discussed forming an impenetrable cybersecurity unit so that election hacking, and many other negative things, will be guarded and safe.” Fast forward to 2020👇 https://twitter.com/...

• @razhael Raphael Satter on x

  Huge scoop from ⁦@Bing_Chris⁩: the US Treasury and the US NTIA have been breached by hackers. A foreign government is suspected and the National Security Council met Saturday to discuss the fallout. https://www.reuters.com/...

• @robertjdenault Robert J. DeNault on x

  Major story here. Foreign government has hacked Treasury; Trump removed the entire leadership at the Cyber and Infrastructure Agency weeks ago and there is a bevy of inexperienced folks having emergency meeting to respond. https://twitter.com/...

• @w7voa Steve Herman on x

  This #cyberattack of @USTreasury and other US government agencies, from which data was stolen, by a foreign group linked to a hostile government reportedly prompted an emergency @WHNSC meeting. https://twitter.com/...

• @mattk Matt on x

  Is this part of his declared declassification strategy? https://twitter.com/...

• @grantstern Grant Stern on x

  Remember when Trump announced a joint US-Russian cyber security service? https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...

• @underthebreach Alon Gal on x

  Leaked image of what the hackers managed to do to the US Treasury https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...

• @joeuchill Joe Uchill on x

  This is obviously bad. But there's also often a rush to assume things like this are attempts at sabotage rather than strategic information gathering. There are tiers of bad that aren't crashing the telecommunications grid or overtly harming Americans. https://www.reuters.com/...

• @bing_chris Chris Bing on x

  It's kind of wild this hacking campaign went undetected for months and then it hit FireEye and then everyone could see it. Big flex and poor targeting choice?

• @daveweigel Dave Weigel on x

  All I know is that I woke up with $500b in my bank account and I'm not gonna ask any questions about it. https://twitter.com/...

• @emptywheel Dr. emptywheel on x

  And I mean, literally. Trump went into FBI and DOJ and made sure that everyone with specific expertise in fighting Russia was chased out of there. Welp, Mr. President. They just pwned Treasury. And you not just own that, you invited that.