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Chinese hackers breach US broadband networks, access sensitive wiretapping data: Report
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Chinese hackers accessed the networks of US broadband providers and obtained information from systems that the federal government uses for court-authorised wiretapping, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday.Verizon Communications, AT&T and Lumen Technologies are among the telecoms companies whose networks were breached by the recently discovered intrusion, the newspaper said, citing people familiar with the matter. The hackers might have held access for months to network infrastructure used by the companies to cooperate with court-authorised US requests for communications data, the Journal said. In its statement, China’s foreign ministry said Beijing’s cybersecurity agencies had found and published evidence to show Volt Typhoon was staged by “an international ransomware organisation.”
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