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Canadian media giant Rogers named as victim of Chinese telecom hackers
Rogers is Canada’s top wireless provider and is among that nation’s core telecom firms mandated to comply with Canadian lawful access rules, which require them to share user data with investigators.
The group, known as Salt Typhoon, was discovered inside a batch of American telecom operators last year and first brought to light by the Wall Street Journal in late September. Canada, like many countries with robust telecom networks, has laws that let federal investigators compel providers to turn over communications metadata on individuals suspected of criminal activity, hacking or espionage. Communications data is widely considered a prized intelligence target because it lets spies glimpse into the private deliberations of government officials or contractors involved in sensitive national security work.
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