U.S. Government Agencies Targeted in Cyber Attack

Federal U.S. government agencies have fallen victim to a global cyber attack that exploited a vulnerability in widely used software. Eric Goldstein, the assistant executive director for cybersecurity at the agency, stated in a Thursday announcement to CNN that the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is "providing support to several federal agencies that were attacked." It is not immediately clear whether the hackers responsible for the breach of federal agencies belong to a Russian-speaking ransomware group. A Russian-speaking cyber gang claimed to have breached the data of BBC and British Airways employees. Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore reported that the hackers accessed "sensitive personal and financial information," including health billing records.