‘We’re still investigating the scope and scale,’ an administration official said.
A top White House official has said that Chinese state-sponsored hackers targeted “very senior” American political figures and recorded their phone calls.
Anne Neuberger, deputy national security adviser for cyber and emerging technologies, told reporters at a security conference in Bahrain that Chinese hacker group “Salt Typhoon” had stolen a large volume of Americans’ metadata.
“The purpose of the operation was more focused,” Neuberger said. “We believe … the actual number of calls that they took, recorded and took, was really more focused on very senior political individuals. ”
She did not name anyone targeted by the Chinese hackers.
“We’re still investigating the scope and scale” of the Chinese hacking campaign, Neuberger added.
Earlier this week, Neuberger revealed that Salt Typhoon had breached at least eight U.S. telecommunication companies. She also warned at the time that none of the companies had fully removed the hackers from their networks.
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