Treasury says Chinese hackers remotely accessed documents in ‘major’ cyber incident

American flags are displayed with Chinese flags on top of a trishaw on Sept. 16, 2018, in Beijing. Andy Wong/AP

Andy Wong/AP

WASHINGTON — Chinese hackers remotely accessed several U.S. Treasury Department workstations and unclassified documents after compromising a third-party software service provider, the agency said Monday.

The department did not provide details on how many workstations had been accessed or what sort of documents the hackers may have obtained, but it said in a letter to lawmakers revealing the breach that “at this time there is no evidence indicating the

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