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2025-02-07 15:53:14 UTC - NOT_HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: FD885390C0873EEEA195D8B8C2EAD6DD7169DFD79B99C6ED55E18CB3269DA156
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The article headline claims that access to Treasure systems was "given" to China, while it has been widely reported that China "hacked" the Treasure system and "stole" documents. Here are several of the many, many links reporting on this: BBC: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3weye2j0e7o Yahoo: https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-treasurys-workstations-hacked-cyberattack-202106004.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAH8wROlkT3zbKPJ7EfBKer_I7zXncM2wpkDCdDW6oRnGwc80jeMYWy_K78MxDj9EXNUzZGL1NPes7yYGCRkI85gBLlMx1FuqAFRNLcGVdKNC5NzhmrWJnhE8EVmksss7A6pLZCEhizl7sECN_bzNhvcYI68D41Moj6HLd7z7Ht80 PBS: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/treasury-department-says-chinese-hackers-remotely-accessed-workstations-unclassified-documents Reuters: https://www.reuters.com/technology/cybersecurity/us-treasurys-workstations-hacked-cyberattack-by-china-afp-reports-2024-12-30/
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