US officials revise claims that government agencies were hacked by Chinese, now say they were targets

Washington: U.S. officials are correcting earlier statements that several government agencies were hacked by Chinese hackers, now saying that the organizations were among the hackers’ targets.

In a newly edited statement, the Department ‌of Justice said on Friday ⁠that ⁠the U.S. Senate, the Federal Reserve, NASA and others were “among the targets of QTFY,” a Chinese state-sponsored hacking group that officials identified on Wednesday during an internet domain seizure operation. A previous version of the statement said the government agencies had been among the hackers’ victims.