Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says Russia was "Pretty clearly" behind the gravest cyberattack against the United States on record, the first administration official to publicly tie the Kremlin to the widespread intrusion at a time when President Donald Trump has kept silent on the failure to protect government and private-sector computer networks.
It's not clear exactly what the hackers were seeking, but experts say it could include nuclear secrets, blueprints for advanced weaponry, COVID-19 vaccine-related research and information for dossiers on key government and industry leaders.
Russia has said it had "Nothing to do" with the hacking.
It's going to take months to kick elite hackers out of the U.S. government networks they have been quietly rifling through since as far back as March.
Experts say there simply are not enough skilled threat-hunting teams to duly identify all the government and private-sector systems that may have been hacked.
Florida became the first state to acknowledge falling victim to a SolarWinds hack.
Officials told The Associated Press that hackers apparently infiltrated the state's health care administration agency and others.
https://www.newsmax.com/us/federal-agencies-hacked-pompeo/2020/12/19/id/1002324/
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