New details are emerging about the hacking of U.S. telecommunications companies by Chinese-linked groups by U.S. officials and campaign advisers. now, wall street journal The hacker’s access was larger than previously reported, with the communications of “potentially thousands of Americans” potentially affected.
last week, new york times FBI agents reported that they suspect the call records and SMS messages were accessed by a hacker group known as “Salt Typhoon.” The group reportedly targeted the cellphones of diplomats and government officials, as well as officials from both presidential campaigns.
now, WSJ The hackers, who ‘likely’ worked for Chinese intelligence, spent ‘more than eight months’ on US communications infrastructure and may have been able to scoop up data on thousands of people they were in contact with. It is reported that. with the target individual.
The Journal confirmed earlier reports that the hackers “limited their targets to a few dozen selected political and national security figures.” However, hackers who exploited routers used by carriers reportedly “accessed the phone data of nearly every American who was a customer of the compromised carriers (a group that includes AT&T and Verizon). had the ability to. Both AT&T and Verizon declined to comment on the report.
