Yellen says ransomware attack on China's biggest bank minimally disrupted Treasury market trades

BEIJING — U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen suggested Friday that a ransomware attack that forced China's biggest bank to take some systems offline only minimally disrupted the U.S. Treasury market.

The impacted Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Financial Services handles trades and other services for financial institutions. All Treasury trades executed Wednesday and repo financing trades on Thursday were cleared, it said. It said ICBC’s banking, email and other systems were not affected.

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