Alleged Russian hackers, thanks to the hacking of the IT company SolarWinds, gained access to the electronic mailboxes of senior American officials responsible for security under former US President Donald Trump. Among other things, the hackers hacked into the account and. US Secretary of Homeland Security Chad Wolfe, who held this post until January 11 of this year, and officials of the department in charge of cybersecurity and tracking threats from foreign countries, AP reported citing multiple sources.

The agency notes that the intelligence value of these cyberattacks has not been publicly reported, but their symbolic significance is very high, as the question arose as to how the US administration is able to protect citizens, companies and institutions across the country, if it is not even able to protect itself..

" We are talking about penetrating the very top echelons of this department, "

Chad Wolfe himself declined to comment on this information, noting only that when he was the head of the BIM, he had several e-mail boxes.. For her part, ministry spokeswoman Sarah Peck said that the cyberattack had compromised the accounts of only a small number of employees, and at the moment the BIV sees no signs of continued vulnerability of information networks..

The current US administration, headed by President Joe Biden, promises to issue a decree in the near future on the technological modernization of cybersecurity means in federal departments. Earlier, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) was allocated $ 650 million for this purpose.. The Biden administration also intends to introduce a national cybersecurity officer..