Biden-Harris Team Briefed On Cyber Breaches To Government Networks

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President-elect Joe Biden, pictured on Dec. 11, issued a statement on Thursday saying his transition team had been briefed on a major cyberattack on U.S. government networks.





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Cybersecurity experts say the style of attack points to Russia’s foreign intelligence service, but the Trump administration has not publicly made that accusation, and President Trump has not made a statement on the breach.

Biden vowed to make cybersecurity «a top priority at every level of government — and we will make dealing with this breach a top priority from the moment we take office.

Biden’s statement came after the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, or CISA, issued a statement saying the breach «poses a grave risk to the Federal Government and state, local, tribal, and territorial governments as well as critical infrastructure entities and other private sector organizations.

CISA says the breach began in at least March 2020, and that the hackers have «demonstrated patience, operational security, and complex tradecraft in these intrusions.

The chairs of the House Oversight and Homeland Security committees and several related subcommittees sent a letter to the Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe, FBI Director Christopher Wray and acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf calling for a classified, interagency briefing this Friday.

The committees also asked the agencies to «provide any damage assessments of the attack, including interim analyses, as soon as practicable.