DOJ Employee Email Accounts Accessed by SolarWinds Hackers

DOJ Employee Email Accounts Accessed by SolarWinds Hackers
The U.S. Department of Justice building is seen in Washington on July 22, 2019. Alastair Pike/AFP/Getty Images
Bill Pan
Bill Pan
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The Justice Department confirmed Wednesday that its employees’ email accounts had been accessed by the hackers who broke into software company SolarWinds.

The department discovered the breach on Dec. 24, 2020, and has eliminated the identified method by which the hackers had accessed its Microsoft Office 365 email environment, spokesperson Marc Raimondi said in a statement.
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