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US Treasury says Chinese hackers stole documents in 'major incident'
(Reuters) -Chinese state-sponsored hackers broke into the U.S. Treasury Department earlier this month and stole documents from its workstations, according to a letter to lawmakers that was provided to Reuters
According to the letter, hackers "gained access to a key used by the vendor to secure a cloud-based service used to remotely provide technical support for Treasury Departmental Offices (DO) end users. BeyondTrust didn't immediately return messages seeking comment but, on its website, the company said it had recently identified "a security incident" that involved a "limited number" of customers of its remote support software. (Reporting by Akash Sriram in Bengaluru and Raphael Satter in Washington; Editing by Shinjini Ganguli, Tasim Zahid, Leslie Adler and Alistair Bell)
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