Chinese government hackers targeted the U.S. Treasury’s highly sensitive sanctions office during a December cyberattack, according to reports. According

The Treasury Department says Chinese hackers remotely accessed several employee workstations and unclassified documents after compromising a third-party software service provider.

Chinese hackers who launched a cyberattack on the US Treasury Department targeted an important department of the agency that deals with sanctions against countries and groups of people imposed by the US government.