Agencies within the Department of Energy, including the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), were reportedly breached as part of a massive hack on an IT group that has hit almost a dozen federal agencies.<\/p>\n
Politico reported<\/a>\u00a0Thursday that NNSA, which is charged with maintaining the nation\u2019s nuclear weapons stockpile, had been hit as part of the nation state infiltration of SolarWinds software. The Washington Post on Sunday had attributed the\u00a0attack<\/a>\u00a0to a prolific Russian military hacking group known as \u201cCozy Bear.\u201d<\/p>\n Politico noted that other Energy agencies that found \u201csuspicious activity\u201d in their networks included the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), the Sandia and Los Alamos national laboratories, the Office of Secure Transportation and the Energy Department\u2019s Richland Field Office. According to the publication, more damage was done at FERC than at any of the other agencies.<\/p>\n A spokesperson for the NNSA declined to comment, referring The Hill to the Department of Energy, which did not respond to a request for comment on the cyber incident.<\/p>\n The Hill also reached out to the House Energy and Commerce and Senate Energy and Natural Resources panels, which have jurisdiction over the agencies. Politico reported that the Energy Department had begun the process of notifying committees of jurisdiction about the attack.<\/p>\n Other agencies hit as part of the massive espionage effort, which has been in progress since as early as March, include the Department of Homeland Security, the State Department, the Treasury Department, the Commerce Department, and branches of the Pentagon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Agencies within the Department of Energy,...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30043,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30042\/revisions\/30043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}