The U.S. Treasury Department on Friday imposed sanctions on alleged hacker Yin Kecheng and cybersecurity company Sichuan Juxinhe Network Technology Co., accusing both of being involved in a series of hacks against American telecom companies.

The United States has imposed sanctions on a man named Yin Kecheng, accusing him of being involved in a major cyberattack on the US Department of Treasury. Yin is reportedly linked to China’s Ministry of State Security (MSS),

The US sanctioned Yin Kecheng, linked to China's MSS, for hacking the Treasury Department, and Sichuan Juxinhe Network Technology Co., tied to Salt Typhoon, for targeting US telecoms and politicians like Donald Trump and Kamala Harris.

The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced on Friday that it had sanctioned a China-based cybersecurity company, known as Sichuan Juxinhe Network Technology, which it says is directly linked to the China-backed Salt Typhoon hacking group.

The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has sanctioned Yin Kecheng, a Shanghai-based hacker for his role in the recent Treasury breach and a company associated with the Salt Typhoon threat group.

The sanctions target a Chinese hacker who officials say is affiliated with Beijing's Ministry of State Security and was involved in a cyberintrusion disclosed last month that gave hackers access to an untold number of Treasury Department workstations.

The Biden administration on Friday announced sanctions on two Chinese entities accused of cyberattacks, including a firm it said is directly involved in the recent espionage campaign against US telecommunications firms and a hacker behind the recent breach of Treasury Department computers.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen's computer was hacked and unclassified files were accessed as part of a broader breach of the Treasury Department by Chinese state-sponsored hackers, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday,