Cybersecurity incident — 2020-12-13 00:00:00
Affected organization: US Department of the Treasury
Affected country: United States of America
Industry: Public Administration
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Political-Espionage
Actor: SVR (COZYBEAR)
Actor type: Nation-State
Actor country: Russian Federation

The Department of the Treasury is a victim of the SolarWinds hack. The hackers, who are backed by a foreign government, stole information from its networks.