The political establishment is in an uproar over a recent telecommunications industry security breach that was supposedly caused by a hacking group tied to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
Article by Ethan Huff, republished with permission from Naturalnews.com
Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-Va.), chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, claims a hacking group called “Salt Typhoon” is responsible for unleashing the “worst telecom hack in our nation’s history.”
The stolen data was intended for U.S. law enforcement agencies to use, but instead ended up in the hands of officials in Beijing, we are told.
Salt Typhoon reportedly obtained access to cables that allowed them to listen live to audio calls, some of which were routed through multiple telecom networks via “trust” connections that were exploited.
Less than 150 people were directly affected by the breach, most of them in the nation’s capital. However, potentially “millions” of people had their call and text records hacked by the group, which could use information therein to target Americans for surveillance.
(Related: Back in the summer, one of the world’s largest IT providers that services the U.S. military-industrial complex suffered a major cybersecurity breach that put the U.S. government’s most sensitive files at risk of