'Our cyber Pearl Harbour': US politicians alarmed by scale of attack

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'Our cyber Pearl Harbour': US politicians alarmed by scale of attack | KnottMatthew

Senior American politicians are growing increasingly alarmed at the extent of a massive foreign hack of US government departments, with one congressman describing the breach as "our modern-day cyber Pearl Harbor".

The Treasury Department, Homeland Security Department, Defence Department and National Institutes of HealthThe hackers have been monitoring government networks since March after compromising the widely-used software made by IT company SolarWinds Corp. "There’s a lot we don’t yet know, but what we do know is a matter of great concern," Biden said in a statement.

Republican Senator Marco Rubio, the head of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said on Twitter: "The full extent of the cyberhack is still unknown but we already know it is unprecedented in scale & scope, in all likelihood ongoing & at a level of sophistication only a few nation-states are capable of."Reuters

Democratic Senator Mark Warner said: "It is extremely troubling that the President does not appear to be acknowledging, much less acting upon, the gravity of this situation."

 

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