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of course that will be determined by the
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investigative agencies all the
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intelligence agencies the FBI uh and
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others that are now working on this but
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this is being described as a major
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incident and according to the treasury
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Department uh like you said it was
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earlier this month they're now saying it
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was December the 8th that they learned
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that what the US government is calling a
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state run or State uh uh activated uh
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China hacking operation was able to get
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access to a key uh from this third-party
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vendor use that key to then override the
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system and then gain remote access to
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workstations uh to documents that the
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treasury Department says were
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unclassified so they're generally
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protocols that put into that are put
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into place when this happens the Biden
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Administration the treasury Department
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will notify lawmakers they've done that
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and they do so by letter this is the
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letter in which that they have
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instructed lawmakers as to what they
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know about this so far and I'll read one
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one quick quote they said they the
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hackers gained access to a key used by
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the vendor to secure a cloud-based
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service used to remotely provide
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technical support for Treasury
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Department offices and end users
