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\n US President Donald Trump (R) walks in 2019 with President Vladimir Putin of Russia, which has been blamed for a massive cyberattack in the United States
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Hackers broke into systems used by top US Treasury officials during a massive cyberattack on government agencies and may have stolen essential encryption keys, a senior lawmaker said Monday.<\/p>\n

Senator Ron Wyden, who sits on both the Senate Intelligence and Finance Committees, said after a closed-door briefing that the hack at the US Treasury Department “app<\/a>ears to be significant.”<\/p>\n

Dozens of email accounts were compromised, he said in a statement.<\/p>\n

“Additionally the hackers broke into systems in the Departmental Offices division of Treasury, home to the department’s highest-ranking officials,” said Wyden.<\/p>\n

“Treasury still does not know all of the actions taken by hackers, or precisely what information was stolen.”<\/p>\n

The US government admitted last week that computer systems in multiple departments were penetrated by attackers who hacked in through widely used security software made by the US company SolarWinds.<\/p>\n

Members of Congress briefed by US intelligence, as well as Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Attorney General<\/a> Bill Barr, have all said Russians were behind the hack.<\/p>\n

So far officials have said the hackers broke into computers at the State Department, Commerce Department, Treasury, Homeland Security Department, and the National Institutes of Health. <\/p>\n

But experts have said they fear far more of the government could be affected, including US intelligence bodies, given the ubiquitousness of the SolarWinds security software. <\/p>\n

Wyden said that the Internal Revenue Service had said there was no evidence that they had been compromised or data on taxpayers taken.<\/p>\n

But he sharply criticized the government for not taking stronger measures to protect its systems.<\/p>\n

The government “has now suffered a breach that seems to involve skilled hackers stealing encryption keys from (government) servers,” he said.<\/p>\n

That has happened despite “years of government officials advocating for encryption backdoors, and ignoring warnings from cybersecurity experts who said that encryption keys become irresistible targets for hackers.”\n <\/p>\n\n

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