The U.S. Department of Justice on Wednesday became the latest government agency in the country to admit its internal network was compromised as part of the SolarWinds supply chain attack.
“On December 24, 2020, the Department of Justice’s Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO) learned of previously unknown malicious activity linked to the global SolarWinds incident that has affected multiple federal agencies and technology contractors, among others,” DoJ spokesperson Marc Raimondi said in a short statement. “This activity involved access to the Department’s Microsoft Office 365 email environment.”
Calling it a “major incident,” the DoJ said the threat actors who spied on government networks through SolarWinds software potentially accessed about 3% of the Justice Department’s email accounts, but added there’s no indication they accessed classified systems.
The disclosure comes a day after the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure…