SolarWinds Hackers Gained Access to Emails of DHS Chief, Cybersecurity Staff: Report
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As part of the SolarWinds breach, Russian hackers gained access to email accounts belonging to the Trump administration’s head of the Department of Homeland Security, then-acting Secretary Chad Wolf, and members of the department’s cybersecurity staff whose jobs included hunting threats from foreign countries, based on interviews with more than a dozen current and former U.S. government officials.
The hackers were also able to obtain officials' private schedules at the Energy Department, including then-Secretary Dan Brouillette, one former high-placed administration official said.
Wolf and other top Homeland Security officials used new phones that had been wiped clean along with the popular encrypted messaging system Signal to communicate in the days after the hack. One official confirmed that the Federal Aviation Administration was among th…
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