US Senator Ron Wyden said that dozens of US Treasury email accounts were compromised by the threat actors behind the SolarWinds hack.
The statement was issued after the US Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) briefed the Committee staff on the SolarWinds supply chain attack.
While no evidence was found that the IRS itself or any taxpayers' data was compromised as part of this ongoing hacking campaign, the senator said that "the hack of the Treasury Department appears to be significant."
Dozens of Treasury email accounts breached
"According to Treasury staff, the agency suffered a serious breach, beginning in July, the full depth of which isn’t known," Wyden, a ranking member of the Senate Committee on Finance, said. "Microsoft notified the agency that dozens of email accounts were compromised."
The senator also added that the SolarWinds hackers also breached the systems in the Departmental Offices division of the US Treasury, a department that is the "home to the department’s highest-ranking officials."
"Treasury still does not know all of the actions taken by hackers, or precisely what information was stolen," Wyden added.
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin also told CNBC when asked about the Treasury being hacked that Treasury has not yet found evidence of compromise of classified systems.
"I will say the good news is there’s been no damage, nor have we seen any large amounts of information displaced," Mnuchin said.
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