US energy department, other federal agencies hit in global hacking spree

The Russia-linked extortion group Cl0p, which has claimed credit for the MOVEit hack, earlier said in a statement that it would not exploit any data taken from government agencies, and that it had erased all such data.The US Cybsecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said it was helping several federal agencies that had been breached, but did not name them.

The energy department, which manages US nuclear infrastructure and energy policy, said it had notified Congress of the breach and is participating in investigations with law enforcement and CISA. "There are around 50 users of the tool, and we are urgently investigating what data may have been impacted," she added.Johns Hopkins also said it was "investigating a recent cybersecurity attack targeting a widely used software tool that affected our networks".

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