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Cointelegraph Chinese (ID: CointelegraphChina)attack, reprinted by Odaily with authorization.

According to a Reuters report, learned from three people familiar with the investigation, a "sophisticated hacking group" backed by a foreign government was able tofiredattackU.S. Department of the Treasury and National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) Department of Commerce.The hack happened on Donald Trump

firedBTCThat came less than a month after Chris Krebs, director of cybersecurity at the Department of Homeland Security. However, Reuters said the group of hackers had been monitoring the emails of NTIA employees,

for "several months". Other government agencies were also targeted, but the sources gave no further details.expressIn response to the hacking of the powerful government agency, cryptocurrency investors pointed to bitcoin ()The advantages.Kraken Business Director Dan Held on Twitter

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: "Bitcoin will never be hacked." Bitcoin bull Anthony Pompliano

— Blockfolio (@blockfolio) agreed

Held's point of view, also said that "Bitcoin will never be hacked."

Bitcoin means that the SHA256 algorithm is more trustworthy than the US Treasury.explainDecember 13, 2020It's unclear if any funds were affected as a result of the breach. As of this writing, the hack appears to have been limited to possible theft of information from government agency emails.Taylor Monahan, Founder and CEO, MyCrypto