The Department of Justice said the accounts were „compromised in connection“ with the 2020 SolarWinds hack.
Russian hackers breached email accounts belonging to employees at 27 federal prosecutors‘ offices around the country, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Friday. The DOJ said the accounts were „compromised in connection“ with the SolarWinds hack. During that cyberattack on the Texas-based software company in 2020, hackers were able gain access to private companies and several federal agencies. The U.S. sanctioned Russia over the attack in April. The department said Friday that the accounts at the prosecutors‘ offices were compromised between May 7 and December 27,2020. „The compromised data included all sent, received, and stored emails and attachments found within those accounts during that time,“ the department stated. DOJ said one or more employees‘ email accounts were compromised at all 27 offices. But it noted that 80 percent of employees‘ email accounts were compromised at the U.
