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China-linked hackers breach US Treasury via BeyondTrust
The US Treasury said China state-sponsored hackers used a compromised BeyondTrust remote support key to access workstations and documents.
- Organisation
- US Treasury
- Disclosed
- 30 December 2024
- Affected
- Not stated
- Data
- Unclassified documents
- Attacker
- Silk Typhoon (China)
- Severity
- critical
- Region
- Global
- Source
- CM-Alliance ↗
Cite this
Nuffield Consulting, “China-linked hackers breach US Treasury via BeyondTrust”, The Daily Tech Wire outage & breach log, 30 Dec 2024. https://techwire.nuffieldconsulting.com/incidents/2024-12-30-us-treasury-breach/ (retrieved 15 Nov 2026).
This entry summarises public reporting. Please also cite the original source: CM-Alliance, https://www.cm-alliance.com/cybersecurity-blog/december-2024-major-cyber-attacks-data-breaches-ransomware-attacks.
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