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China Wiretaps Americans in 'Worst Hack in Our Nation's History'
America's aging infrastructure seems to be the culprit.
Hackers for the Chinese government were able to deeply penetrate U.S. telecommunications infrastructure in ways that President Joe Biden’s administration hasn’t yet acknowledged, according to new reports from the Washington Post and New York Times. The hackers behind the infiltration of U.S. telecom infrastructure are known to Western intelligence agencies as Salt Typhoon, and this particular breach of U.S. equipment was first reported in early October by the Wall Street Journal. Warner told the Post that the infiltration wasn’t directly related to the U.S. elections on Nov. 5, noting that hackers breached the system “months earlier,” and in some cases more than a year ago, though that logic is a bit confusing.
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