Elon Musk has turned the U.S. Treasury Department’s cybersecurity disaster into his latest roast material. Following news that Chinese state-backed hackers breached Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen’s computer, Elon went to X (formerly Twitter) taking jabs at her.
“A 12-year-old script kiddie could hack into Yellen’s computer. I doubt she knows how to reboot her WiFi router,” he wrote. He then threw Bitcoin out there too, saying, “Maybe she clicked on the ‘send me 1 BTC, I send you 2 BTC’ email.”
The breach wasn’t just limited to Yellen’s device. Hackers accessed fewer than 50 unclassified files on her machine and also infiltrated the computers of her top deputies—Deputy Secretary Wally Adeyemo and Acting Under Secretary Brad Smith.
According to a report by Bloomberg, this attack is part of a larger cyber espionage campaign by Chinese operatives targeting high-level U.S. government officials.
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