The debt ceiling suspension allows the Treasury to maintain its planned auction schedule for total borrowings of US$726 billion in the April-June quarter.

Asri Hamidin was absent from Anwar Ibrahim's ceremonial clocking-in ceremony at the finance ministry in Putrajaya this morning.

So far officials have said the hackers broke into computers at the State Department, Commerce Department, Treasury, Homeland Security Department, and the National Institutes of Health.