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we're following breaking developments from the white house the national security council confirms to nbc news that they are investigating a hack affecting the treasury department and a unit of the commerce department and tonight we've learned russia is behind it for more i want to bring in nbc national security correspondent ken delanian ken do we have any idea what kind of information was accessed we do not alicia other than the fact that a source familiar with the matter told me that right now there are no indications that classified networks have been breached but that same source who confirmed the washington post reporting that the u.s government believed that this was the work of the russian version of the cia the svr that same source said that it's believed that this is a wider campaign there may be more government agencies affected and a number of private sector agencies last week we reported that the russians had a major cyber security firm called fireeye and the way they are reported to have attacked treasury and commerce is through a network management software that gives them administrative access so it's a really devious method and it has given them access to you know sort of unknown levels of us government information the us government was so concerned about it reuters reported that there was a national security council meeting about it on saturday alicia can understanding that this may be part of something bigger what do we know about why russia would hack commerce and treasury specifically well in the case of the commerce department it's been reported that they were targeting an agency that deals with internet regulation but just stepping back these kinds of hacking and espionage games go on between great powers all the time we can presume that the us government is trying to hack russian government agencies they're trying to hack all of our agencies no doubt you know the typical national security agencies that you think of in this context like the defense department and the intelligence agencies but they can get very valuable information from commerce and treasury things that affect their national security interests and give them an advantage and and they are trying to find ways to hurt the united states in the broader context there's intelligence that they are paying bounties uh in afghanistan for the deaths of u.s troops this is a sort of a an adversarial relationship and the russians are doing anything they can to get an advantage and to gain information alicia hey there i'm chris hayes from msnbc thanks for watching msnbc on youtube if you want to keep up to date with the videos we're putting out you can click subscribe just below me or click over on this list to see lots of other great videos