US Treasury says Chinese hackers remotely accessed workstations and documents

The US Treasury said it learned of the hack, which it attributed to China, on December 8 (Andy Wong/AP)

Chinese hackers remotely accessed several US Treasury Department workstations and unclassified documents after compromising a third-party software service provider, the agency has said.

The department did not provide details on how many workstations had been accessed or what sort of documents the hackers may have obtained, but it said in a letter to politicians revealing the breach that “at this time there is no evidence indicating the threat actor has continued access to Treasury information”.