Two congressional Republicans are calling for a briefing from the US Treasury Department about the recent cyber breach by an alleged China backed hacker.
Two United States Republican Party lawmakers are calling on the Treasury Department to provide answers to how a Chinese state-sponsored entity hacked and accessed employee workstations.
In the Dec. 31 letter to US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen obtained by Law360, Senator Tim Scott, a member of the Senate Banking Committee, and Representative French Hill, the House Financial Services Committee vice chair, asked for a full congressional briefing on the breach by Jan. 10.
Scott and Hill want the briefing to cover the information accessed by the hackers, specific details on how it occurred and steps the treasury has taken to ensure that similar incidents don’t happen in the future, adding:
