Washington DC. US officials have accused Chinese hackers of breaking into their country’s Treasury Department’s systems. The US has accused Chinese government-sponsored hackers of breaking into the Finance Ministry’s system.
It is said that the hackers reached the workstations of the employees and some documents. But China has rejected those allegations and said they are “baseless”.
This incident is said to have taken place in the beginning of December. The incident came to light only after the Ministry of Finance wrote a letter to the senators and informed them about it.The US agency has called it a ‘major incident’. The FBI and other agencies are said to be working together to investigate the impact of the incident.The spokesperson of the Chinese embassy in the capital, Washington DC, said in a conversation with the BBC that this allegation was part of a “defamatory attack” and was baseless. Agency