A top White House official says a ninth U.S. telecoms firm has been confirmed to have been hacked as part of a sprawling Chinese espionage campaign that gave officials in Beijing access to private texts and phone conversations of an unknown number of Americans.

Summary

A ninth U.S. telecom firm has been hacked in the Chinese espionage campaign “Salt Typhoon,” which gave Beijing access to private texts and calls of Americans, including senior government officials.

The Biden administration confirmed the breach after issuing guidance to detect Chinese hackers.

Officials call for mandatory cybersecurity regulations, as voluntary measures are deemed insufficient.

The FCC will address the issue next month, while further U.S. actions are expected.

China denies involvement.

  • Fades@lemmy.world
    6·
    1 day ago

    A tale as old as time, just like when those same goddamn telecoms took taxpayer money to modernize their shit and they simply didn’t instead and went with stock buybacks and the like.

    • MutilationWave@lemmy.world
      2·
      24 hours ago

      Fucking Verizon got paid a shit ton of money, I’m not even going to look up how much, to run fiber to every community of any decent size. In my state they did, right up until they hit the city. Running fiber in a developed area is crazy expensive compared to running it through rural areas. So they just took all the government money and said they did what they asked for. It took over ten years for a local company to get fiber to my neighborhood, and I’m right beside downtown in the biggest city in the state! To be fair it’s not a big city.