A senior U.S. official revealed that a Chinese hacking group, named 'Salt Typhoon', has stolen a large number of Americans' metadata. The extent of the cyberespionage campaign is vast, affecting several telecommunications and telecom infrastructure firms in the U.S. and dozens of companies worldwide.
A large number of Americans’ metadata has been stolen in the sweeping cyberespionage campaign carried out by a Chinese hacking group dubbed “ Salt Typhoon ,” a senior U.S. official told journalists on Wednesday.
“We believe a large number of Americans’ metadata was taken,” she told reporters. Pushed on whether that might include every American cell phone’s records, the official said: “We do not believe it’s every cell phone in the country, but we believe it’s potentially a large number of individuals that the Chinese government was focused on.”
U.S. officials have previously alleged the hackers targeted Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, Lumen and others and stole telephone audio intercepts along with a large tranche of call record data. The official said the White House had made tackling the Salt Typhoon hackers a priority for the federal government and that President Joe Biden had been briefed several times on the intrusions.
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