The Chinese Telecom Hack Was Much Worse Than We've Been Told

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The Chinese Telecom Hack Was Much Worse Than We've Been Told
John Sexton 7:20 PM | November 22, 2024

About a month ago we learned that Chinese hackers had targeted the phones of Donald Trump and J.D. Vance. The hackers, dubbed "Salt Typhoon" were known to have targeted their phones, along with the phones of other government figures, however it wasn't known exactly how far they got. Yesterday, Sen. Mark R. Warner, the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said this was the worst telecom hack in US history.

    The networks are still compromised, and booting the hackers out could involve physically replacing “literally thousands and thousands and thousands of pieces of equipment across the country,” specifically outdated routers and switches, Warner said.

    “This is an ongoing effort by China to infiltrate telecom systems around the world, to exfiltrate huge amounts of data,” he said.

    The Salt Typhoon telecom breach makes Colonial Pipeline and SolarWinds — major cyberattacks linked, respectively, to Russian-speaking criminals and to the Russian government — “look like child’s play,” Warner said.

One thing which we've apparently learned only recently is that the hackers were able to listen to calls and read text messages, at least between some phones.

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Mario Nawfal
@MarioNawfal
🚨🇺🇸🇨🇳 CHINESE HACKERS HIT AT LEAST EIGHT U.S. TELECOMS

Major telecom giants like AT&T, Verizon, and Lumen were breached by Chinese hackers, who gained access to calls and texts.
Dubbed “Salt Typhoon,” the campaign targeted D.C., snooping on Chuck Schumer’s office and Kamala's and Trump's campaigns.
The FBI is alerting some victims—guessing the rest don’t need to know?
China, as always, denies everything.
Sources: NBC News
9:10 AM · Dec 5, 2024

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Why do we continue to do business with a foreign Government that wants to destroy our way of life?

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White House official: 8 US telecom providers hacked by Chinese
By Sean Lyngaas, CNN
Published 4:20 PM EST, Wed December 4, 2024

 US officials believe Chinese hackers breached at least eight US telecommunications providers in their quest to spy on top US political figures as part of a hacking campaign that has affected dozens of countries worldwide, a White House official said Wednesday.

“Right now, we do not believe any have fully removed the Chinese actors from these networks … so there is a risk of ongoing compromises to communications,” Anne Neuberger, deputy national security adviser, told reporters.

It’s the highest public tally yet the Biden administration has given of the scope of a hacking campaign that has rattled the US national security establishment and is poised to challenge the incoming Trump administration. Officials do not believe the hackers accessed classified information, Neuberger said.  ...
https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/04/politics/us-telecom-providers-chinese-hack/index.html