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SolarWinds hackers reportedly breached high-level DHS email accounts
The email for the acting secretary at the time, Chad Wolf, was among those breached in a hacking campaign attributed to Russian intelligence.
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Laura Hautala
March 29, 2021 10:51 a.m. PT
DHS officials in charge of catching foreign adversaries were hacked in the SolarWinds attack, the AP reported Monday.
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The hackers behind the complex malware campaign known as the SolarWinds breach accessed high-level email accounts at the US Department of Homeland Security, according to an AP report. The accounts reportedly belonged to then-acting Secretary Chad Wolf, appointed by President Donald Trump in November 2019, as well as DHS officials in charge of identifying threats from foreign adversaries.
The report Monday indicates that the suspected Russian hackers breached the email accounts of the very people in the Trump administration whose job it was to catch them. News sources reported in February that DHS was one target of the intrusions, which hit at least nine total federal agencies in addition to 100 private companies. The hackers used malware implanted in software made by SolarWinds, as well as vulnerabilities in software from other companies, to breach a variety of systems.
The email for the acting secretary at the time, Chad Wolf, was among those breached in a hacking campaign attributed to Russian intelligence.
Laura Hautala headshot
Laura Hautala
March 29, 2021 10:51 a.m. PT
DHS officials in charge of catching foreign adversaries were hacked in the SolarWinds attack, the AP reported Monday.
Angela Lang/CNET
The hackers behind the complex malware campaign known as the SolarWinds breach accessed high-level email accounts at the US Department of Homeland Security, according to an AP report. The accounts reportedly belonged to then-acting Secretary Chad Wolf, appointed by President Donald Trump in November 2019, as well as DHS officials in charge of identifying threats from foreign adversaries.
The report Monday indicates that the suspected Russian hackers breached the email accounts of the very people in the Trump administration whose job it was to catch them. News sources reported in February that DHS was one target of the intrusions, which hit at least nine total federal agencies in addition to 100 private companies. The hackers used malware implanted in software made by SolarWinds, as well as vulnerabilities in software from other companies, to breach a variety of systems.
