We need to really meta this thread in the hope that all the right people get the unlubed dildo of consequences.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/30/us/politics/china-hack-treasury.html
A state-sponsored actor in China hacked the U.S. Treasury Department, gaining access to the workstations of government employees and unclassified documents, the Biden administration said on Monday.
The announcement comes after revelations in recent months that China had penetrated deep into U.S. telecommunications systems, gaining access to the phone conversations and text messages of U.S. officials and others.
In a letter informing lawmakers of the episode, the Treasury Department said that it had been notified on Dec. 8 by a third-party software service company, BeyondTrust, that the hacker had obtained a security key that allowed it to remotely gain access to certain Treasury workstations and documents on them.
βBased on available indicators, the incident has been attributed to a China state-sponsored Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) actor,β the letter said. βIn accordance with Treasury policy, intrusions attributable to an APT are considered a major cybersecurity incident.β