Welcome to the Tech Me Brian Home for Monday, December 14th, 2020. I'm Brian McCullough today.

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Over the weekend news broke that suspected state-sponsored hackers had broke into and then monitored

the internal emails of the U.S. Treasury as well as broke into the the peace breaking this news. The hack is so serious it led to a National

Security Council meeting at the White House on Saturday said one of the people

familiar with the matter. U.S. officials have not said much publicly beyond the

Commerce Department confirming there was a breach at one of

its agencies and that they asked the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the

FBI to investigate. National Security Council spokesman John Ulliet added that they quote are

taking all necessary steps to identify and remedy any possible issues related to

this situation end quote. The US government has not publicly identified who might be behind the hacking, but three of the people familiar with the investigation said Russia is currently believed to be responsible for the attack.

Two of the people said that the breaches are connected to a broad campaign that also

involved the recently disclosed hack of Fire Eye, a major US

cybersecurity company with government and commercial contracts."

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Since that original piece, according to the Washington Post sources have told them

that it was indeed allegedly the Russian hacking group ATP 29 or Cozy Bear, which was behind the attacks, including the previous attack on

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