It's the latest update on a hacking campaign that used tainted software from IT management company SolarWinds, as well as other hacking techniques, to breach thousands of organizations and tunnel deeper into at least nine federal agencies and 100 private companies. Other DHS high-level DHS officials saw their accounts hacked, too. Chad Wolf, appointed acting secretary of the US Department of Homeland Security by President Donald Trump in December 2019, was reportedly among the officials whose email accounts were hacked. US intelligence agencies have said Russia is responsible for a major hacking campaign that struck federal agencies and prominent tech companies.Ī sophisticated malware campaign attributed to Russian intelligence breached the email accounts of government officials tasked with identifying foreign threats to US national security, according to an AP report Monday.
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