Chinese hackers breached US agency that reviews foreign investments, CNN reports
An illustration picture shows a projection of binary code on a man holding a laptop computer, in an office in Warsaw, 24 June, 2013. PHOTO: REUTERS/Kacper Pempel/Illustration
Chinese hackers breached the Committee on Foreign Investment in the US (CFIUS), a government agency that reviews foreign investments for national security risks, CNN reported on Friday, citing three US officials familiar with the matter.
The breach was part of a broader incursion by the hackers into the US Treasury Department's unclassified system, the report said. It did not say when the hack took place.
The US Treasury Department and CFIUS did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment outside regular business hours.
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