US says Chinese hackers broke into Justice Department, NASA, Federal Reserve, Senate, and more

A group of 7 hackers, 6 slightly blurred in the background and one in the foreground, all wearing black with hoods pulled up over their heads. You cannot see their faces. The hacker in the foreground sits with an open laptop in front of them. The background, behind the hackers, is a Chinese flag.

• Multiple US agencies and departments were breached by Chinese state-sponsored hackers
• The hackers use a massive botnet of compromised IoT devices to obscure the origin of their traffic
• The hackers breached computers belonging to NASA, the Federal Reserve, the Senate, the Department of Justice, and more

As part of a disclosure into the Justice Department and FBI operations to prevent Chinese threat actors from accessing a malicious botnet and hacking platforms, the US Office of Public Affairs has revealed that the hackers managed to breach computers belonging to multiple US government departments.