Chinese hackers also breached Charter and Windstream networks
More U.S. companies have been added to the list of telecommunications firms hacked in a wave of breaches by a Chinese state-backed threat group tracked as Salt Typhoon.
White House: Salt Typhoon hacks possible because telecoms lacked basic security measures
The White House said Friday the Salt Typhoon breach occurred in large part due to failures at telecom companies to protect their systems.
At least 8 US telcos, dozens of countries impacted by Salt Typhoon breaches, White House says | The Record from Recorded Future News
Senators briefed on the wide-ranging breaches by Chinese hackers called for action on Wednesday to protect the country's telecommunications networks.
Emerging Details of Chinese Hack Leave U.S. Officials Increasingly Concerned
Leaders of the big telecommunications companies were summoned to the White House to discuss strategies for overhauling the security of the nation’s telecommunications networks amid growing alarm at the scope of a Chinese hack.
T-Mobile confirms it was hacked in recent wave of telecom breaches
T-Mobile confirms it was hacked in the wave of recently reported telecom breaches conducted by Chinese threat actors to gain access to private communications, call records, and law enforcement information requests.
China-linked APT group Salt Typhoon compromised some US ISPs
China-linked threat actors compromised some U.S. internet service providers as part of a cyber espionage campaign code-named Salt Typhoon. The state-sponsored hackers aimed at gathering intelligence from the targets or carrying out disruptive cyberattacks. The Wall Street Journal reported that experts are investigating into the security breached to determine if the attackers gained access to Cisco Systems routers, which are core network components of the ISP infrastructures.