{"id":50023,"date":"2025-01-16T22:39:39","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T03:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bnonews.com\/?p=50023"},"modified":"2025-01-16T22:39:49","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T03:39:49","slug":"chinese-hackers-accessed-secretary-yellens-computer-in-treasury-breach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bnonews.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/chinese-hackers-accessed-secretary-yellens-computer-in-treasury-breach\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese hackers accessed Secretary Yellen\u2019s computer in Treasury breach"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Chinese hackers breached the computer of U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen last month, gaining access to unclassified files, according to Bloomberg. The hackers reportedly accessed fewer than 50 files in the security breach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bloomberg, citing two sources familiar with the incident, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-01-16\/chinese-hacked-us-treasury-secretary-yellen-s-computer-in-breach\">reported<\/a> that the breach also affected the computers of two of Yellen\u2019s deputies: Deputy Secretary Wally Adeyemo and Acting Under Secretary Brad Smith.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Department of the Treasury was notified of the breach on December 8, according to a letter sent to lawmakers by Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Management Aditi Hardikar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BeyondTrust, a software access management provider, informed the Treasury that &#8220;a threat actor had gained access to a key used by the vendor to secure a cloud-based service used to remotely provide technical support for Treasury Departmental Offices (DO) end users,&#8221; Hardikar explained in her letter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBased on available indicators, the incident has been attributed to a China state-sponsored Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) actor,&#8221; Hardikar stated, which she classified the breach as a &#8220;major cybersecurity incident.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese hackers breached the computer of U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen last month, gaining access to unclassified files, according to Bloomberg. The hackers reportedly accessed fewer than 50 files in the security breach. Bloomberg, citing two sources familiar with the incident, reported that the breach also affected the computers of two of Yellen\u2019s deputies: Deputy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":50024,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,2],"tags":[144,171,2996,2893,151],"class_list":["post-50023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-usnews","tag-china","tag-cyber-security","tag-janet-yellen","tag-u-s-department-of-treasury","tag-united-states"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Chinese hackers accessed Secretary Yellen\u2019s computer in Treasury breach - BNO News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/bnonews.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/chinese-hackers-accessed-secretary-yellens-computer-in-treasury-breach\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Chinese hackers accessed Secretary Yellen\u2019s computer in Treasury breach - BNO News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Chinese hackers breached the computer of U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen last month, gaining access to unclassified files, according to Bloomberg. The hackers reportedly accessed fewer than 50 files in the security breach. Bloomberg, citing two sources familiar with the incident, reported that the breach also affected the computers of two of Yellen\u2019s deputies: Deputy [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/bnonews.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/chinese-hackers-accessed-secretary-yellens-computer-in-treasury-breach\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"BNO News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bnonews\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-01-17T03:39:39+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-01-17T03:39:49+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/bnonews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/20250116TreasurySecretaryYellen.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1000\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Carlos Robles\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@bnonews\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@bnonews\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Carlos Robles\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/bnonews.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/chinese-hackers-accessed-secretary-yellens-computer-in-treasury-breach\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/bnonews.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/chinese-hackers-accessed-secretary-yellens-computer-in-treasury-breach\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Carlos Robles\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/bnonews.com\/#\/schema\/person\/0a2ca734b9c5688c0e2d40fe6f33add1\"},\"headline\":\"Chinese hackers accessed Secretary Yellen\u2019s computer in Treasury breach\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-01-17T03:39:39+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-01-17T03:39:49+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/bnonews.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/chinese-hackers-accessed-secretary-yellens-computer-in-treasury-breach\/\"},\"wordCount\":180,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/bnonews.com\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/bnonews.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/chinese-hackers-accessed-secretary-yellens-computer-in-treasury-breach\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/bnonews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/20250116TreasurySecretaryYellen.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"China\",\"cyber security\",\"Janet Yellen\",\"U.S. Department of Treasury\",\"United States\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Politics\",\"US News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/bnonews.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/chinese-hackers-accessed-secretary-yellens-computer-in-treasury-breach\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/bnonews.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/chinese-hackers-accessed-secretary-yellens-computer-in-treasury-breach\/\",\"name\":\"Chinese hackers accessed Secretary Yellen\u2019s computer in Treasury breach - BNO News\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/bnonews.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/bnonews.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/chinese-hackers-accessed-secretary-yellens-computer-in-treasury-breach\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/bnonews.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/chinese-hackers-accessed-secretary-yellens-computer-in-treasury-breach\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/bnonews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/20250116TreasurySecretaryYellen.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-01-17T03:39:39+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-01-17T03:39:49+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/bnonews.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/chinese-hackers-accessed-secretary-yellens-computer-in-treasury-breach\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/bnonews.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/chinese-hackers-accessed-secretary-yellens-computer-in-treasury-breach\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/bnonews.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/chinese-hackers-accessed-secretary-yellens-computer-in-treasury-breach\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/bnonews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/20250116TreasurySecretaryYellen.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/bnonews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/20250116TreasurySecretaryYellen.jpg\",\"width\":1000,\"height\":600},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/bnonews.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/chinese-hackers-accessed-secretary-yellens-computer-in-treasury-breach\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/bnonews.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Chinese hackers accessed Secretary Yellen\u2019s computer in Treasury breach\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/bnonews.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/bnonews.com\/\",\"name\":\"BNO News\",\"description\":\"Breaking news and developing stories from the U.S. and around the world\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/bnonews.com\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/bnonews.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/bnonews.com\/#organization\",\"name\":\"BNO News\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/bnonews.com\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/bnonews.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/bnonews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/BNOLOGOTV.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/bnonews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/BNOLOGOTV.png\",\"width\":1696,\"height\":1443,\"caption\":\"BNO News\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/bnonews.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bnonews\/\",\"https:\/\/x.com\/bnonews\",\"http:\/\/www.instagram.com\/bnonews\/\",\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/bno-news\",\"http:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/bnonewstv\/\",\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/bnonews\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/bnonews.com\/#\/schema\/person\/0a2ca734b9c5688c0e2d40fe6f33add1\",\"name\":\"Carlos Robles\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/bnonews.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/bnonews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/vLTiH3uR_400x400-150x150.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/bnonews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/vLTiH3uR_400x400-150x150.jpg\",\"caption\":\"Carlos Robles\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/bnonews.com\/index.php\/author\/crobles\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Chinese hackers accessed Secretary Yellen\u2019s computer in Treasury breach - BNO News","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/bnonews.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/chinese-hackers-accessed-secretary-yellens-computer-in-treasury-breach\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Chinese hackers accessed Secretary Yellen\u2019s computer in Treasury breach - BNO News","og_description":"Chinese hackers breached the computer of U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen last month, gaining access to unclassified files, according to Bloomberg. The hackers reportedly accessed fewer than 50 files in the security breach. Bloomberg, citing two sources familiar with the incident, reported that the breach also affected the computers of two of Yellen\u2019s deputies: Deputy [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/bnonews.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/chinese-hackers-accessed-secretary-yellens-computer-in-treasury-breach\/","og_site_name":"BNO News","article_publisher":"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bnonews\/","article_published_time":"2025-01-17T03:39:39+00:00","article_modified_time":"2025-01-17T03:39:49+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1000,"height":600,"url":"https:\/\/bnonews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/20250116TreasurySecretaryYellen.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Carlos Robles","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@bnonews","twitter_site":"@bnonews","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Carlos Robles","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/bnonews.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/chinese-hackers-accessed-secretary-yellens-computer-in-treasury-breach\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/bnonews.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/chinese-hackers-accessed-secretary-yellens-computer-in-treasury-breach\/"},"author":{"name":"Carlos Robles","@id":"https:\/\/bnonews.com\/#\/schema\/person\/0a2ca734b9c5688c0e2d40fe6f33add1"},"headline":"Chinese hackers accessed Secretary Yellen\u2019s computer in Treasury breach","datePublished":"2025-01-17T03:39:39+00:00","dateModified":"2025-01-17T03:39:49+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/bnonews.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/chinese-hackers-accessed-secretary-yellens-computer-in-treasury-breach\/"},"wordCount":180,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/bnonews.com\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/bnonews.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/chinese-hackers-accessed-secretary-yellens-computer-in-treasury-breach\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/bnonews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/20250116TreasurySecretaryYellen.jpg","keywords":["China","cyber security","Janet Yellen","U.S. Department of Treasury","United States"],"articleSection":["Politics","US News"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/bnonews.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/chinese-hackers-accessed-secretary-yellens-computer-in-treasury-breach\/","url":"https:\/\/bnonews.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/chinese-hackers-accessed-secretary-yellens-computer-in-treasury-breach\/","name":"Chinese hackers accessed Secretary Yellen\u2019s computer in Treasury breach - BNO News","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/bnonews.com\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/bnonews.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/chinese-hackers-accessed-secretary-yellens-computer-in-treasury-breach\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/bnonews.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/chinese-hackers-accessed-secretary-yellens-computer-in-treasury-breach\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/bnonews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/20250116TreasurySecretaryYellen.jpg","datePublished":"2025-01-17T03:39:39+00:00","dateModified":"2025-01-17T03:39:49+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/bnonews.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/chinese-hackers-accessed-secretary-yellens-computer-in-treasury-breach\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/bnonews.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/chinese-hackers-accessed-secretary-yellens-computer-in-treasury-breach\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/bnonews.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/chinese-hackers-accessed-secretary-yellens-computer-in-treasury-breach\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/bnonews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/20250116TreasurySecretaryYellen.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/bnonews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/20250116TreasurySecretaryYellen.jpg","width":1000,"height":600},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/bnonews.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/chinese-hackers-accessed-secretary-yellens-computer-in-treasury-breach\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/bnonews.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Chinese hackers accessed Secretary Yellen\u2019s computer in Treasury breach"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/bnonews.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/bnonews.com\/","name":"BNO News","description":"Breaking news and developing stories from the U.S. and around the world","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/bnonews.com\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/bnonews.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/bnonews.com\/#organization","name":"BNO News","url":"https:\/\/bnonews.com\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/bnonews.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/bnonews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/BNOLOGOTV.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/bnonews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/BNOLOGOTV.png","width":1696,"height":1443,"caption":"BNO News"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/bnonews.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bnonews\/","https:\/\/x.com\/bnonews","http:\/\/www.instagram.com\/bnonews\/","http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/bno-news","http:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/bnonewstv\/","http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/bnonews"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/bnonews.com\/#\/schema\/person\/0a2ca734b9c5688c0e2d40fe6f33add1","name":"Carlos Robles","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/bnonews.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/bnonews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/vLTiH3uR_400x400-150x150.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/bnonews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/vLTiH3uR_400x400-150x150.jpg","caption":"Carlos Robles"},"url":"https:\/\/bnonews.com\/index.php\/author\/crobles\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bnonews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50023"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bnonews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bnonews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bnonews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bnonews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50023"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bnonews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50026,"href":"https:\/\/bnonews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50023\/revisions\/50026"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bnonews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bnonews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bnonews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bnonews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}