Cyberattacks & Data Breaches
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In what's being called a "major cybersecurity incident," Beijing-backed adversaries broke into cyber vendor BeyondTrust to access the US Department of the Treasury workstations and steal unclassified data, according to a letter sent to lawmakers.
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