The top lawmakers from the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party asked the CEOs of Verizon, AT&T, and Lumen Technologies for answers about a major cyber breach by a group with ties to the Beijing regime. The three companies and others were victims of a CCP-backed cyberattack and that hackers had access to the networks for months or longer. “The implications of any breach of this nature would be difficult to overstate,” the lawmakers wrote in the letter.
The committee previously examined Volt Typhoon, a CCP-backed hacking campaign that had successfully compromised critical U.S. infrastructure. The new campaign is reportedly an effort by “Salt Typhoon,” a separate unit closely linked with the CCP’s spy agency. According to the Wall Street Journal, the attackers accessed networks with criminal and national security information communications data from millions of Americans.
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