CHINA hit back today at the US allegation that it carried out a cyber attack against the US Treasury Department.

Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning said: “We have expressed our position on such unfounded accusations lacking evidence many times.”

She added that China has always opposed all kinds of hacker attacks and added that it opposes the politically motivated spread of false information about Beijing.

The US claimed yesterday that Chinese hackers remotely accessed several US Treasury Department workstations and unclassified documents after compromising a third-party software service provider.

The department did not provide details on how many workstations had been accessed or what sort of documents the hackers may have obtained, but it said in a letter to members of Congress on Monday that “at this time there is no evidence indicating the threat actor has continued access to Treasury information.”

Aditi Hardikar, an assistant Treasury secretary, told leaders of the Senate banking committee in the letter that the compromised service has since been taken offline.

The department said it was working with the FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and others to investigate the impact of the hack.