Salt Typhoon breach of US National Guard exposes admin credentials
Chinese hacking group Salt Typhoon extensively breached a US National Guard unit in 2024. The breach lasted nine months and accessed networks in every US state. A Department of Homeland Security memo stated that administrator credentials and network diagrams were exposed.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- US National Guard
- Incident type
- Hacking & intrusion
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Administrator credentials and network diagrams exposed; access to networks in every US state
- Cause / method
- Network breach by Chinese hacking group Salt Typhoon
- Location
- United States
If your data was exposed
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- Change your password, and also change it on any other site where you use the same one. Turn on two-factor authentication if available.
Timeline
- A Department of Homeland Security memo revealed that Salt Typhoon had extensively breached a National Guard unit in 2024.
- It emerged that the breach lasted nine months and accessed networks in every US state.
- It emerged that administrator credentials and network diagrams had been exposed in the National Guard breach.
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