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In 2020, the Treasury [[2020 United States Treasury and Department of Commerce data breach|suffered a data breach]] following a [[cyberattack]] likely conducted by a [[advanced persistent threat|nation state adversary]], possibly Russia.<ref name="wapo">{{cite news |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201213220635/https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/russian-government-spies-are-behind-a-broad-hacking-campaign-that-has-breached-us-agencies-and-a-top-cyber-firm/2020/12/13/d5a53b88-3d7d-11eb-9453-fc36ba051781_story.html |archive-date=December 13, 2020| url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/russian-government-spies-are-behind-a-broad-hacking-campaign-that-has-breached-us-agencies-and-a-top-cyber-firm/2020/12/13/d5a53b88-3d7d-11eb-9453-fc36ba051781_story.html |title=Russian government spies are behind a broad hacking campaign that has breached U.S. agencies and a top cyber firm |last=Nakashima |first=Ellen |date= December 13, 2020|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|access-date=December 14, 2020}}</ref><ref name="reuters">{{Cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-cyber-treasury-exclsuive-idUSKBN28N0PG|title=Suspected Russian hackers spied on U.S. Treasury emails – sources|first=Christopher|last=Bing|work=[[Reuters]]|date=December 14, 2020|access-date=December 14, 2020|archive-date=December 14, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201214025738/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-cyber-treasury-exclsuive-idUSKBN28N0PG|url-status=live}}</ref> This was in fact the first detected case of the much wider [[2020 United States federal government data breach]], which involved at least eight federal departments.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Office |first=U. S. Government Accountability |date=2024-03-21 |title=SolarWinds Cyberattack Demands Significant Federal and Private-Sector Response (infographic) {{!}} U.S. GAO |url=https://www.gao.gov/blog/solarwinds-cyberattack-demands-significant-federal-and-private-sector-response-infographic |access-date=2024-04-10 |website=www.gao.gov |language=en}}</ref>