The US has issued sanctions against an individual and a company involved in recent high-profile compromises of government officials by Chinese state-affiliated hackers

Chinese hackers accessed over 400 computers and over 3,000 unclassified files when they infiltrated the U.S. Treasury.

The US Treasury Department announced in a letter back in December that it had been the victim of a security breach, attributing it to a “China state-sponsored Advanced Persistent Threat actor.” Now we know more about the extent of the hack,