THIS IS FINE: China Apparently HACKED Verizon, AT&T and Maybe U.S.

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We’re sure this is totally fine and that China is totally not up to anything nefarious. Right?

They’re not hacking our telecommunication companies to do bad things to us or anything like that.

ALERT: China hacked Verizon and AT&T, may have accessed US wiretap systems – Arstechnica, WSJ

— Insider Paper (@TheInsiderPaper) October 7, 2024

Here’s more from Arstechnica:

Chinese government hackers penetrated the networks of several large US-based Internet service providers and may have gained access to systems used for court-authorized wiretaps of communications networks, The Wall Street Journal reported Saturday. “People familiar with the matter” told the WSJ that hackers breached the networks of companies including Verizon, AT&T, and Lumen (also known as CenturyLink).

“A cyberattack tied to the Chinese government penetrated the networks of a swath of US broadband providers, potentially accessing information from systems the federal government uses for court-authorized network wiretapping requests,” the WSJ wrote. “For months or longer, the hackers might have held access to network infrastructure used to cooperate with lawful US requests for communications data, according to people familiar with the matter.”

These “attackers also had access to other tranches of more generic Internet traffic,” according to the WSJ’s sources. The attack is being attributed to a Chinese hacking group called Salt Typhoon.

So the largest water supplier in the country was just hacked, Verizon and AT&T were hacked last week, and Congress was just briefed that dozens of foreign nationals are trying to breach our military bases around the country?

Anyone else think we’ve got a serious problem? https://t.co/vki7jRB3x3

— Marcus Dellinger (@MDellinger13) October 8, 2024

We sure do.

Cool. So not only is the NSA and CIA listening to your communications, so is China https://t.co/0jcVJBaCvf

— Ryan Duff (@ryancduff) October 8, 2024

Peachy.

Reminder: When we were told that all of our Social Security numbers were hacked and stolen Congress said nothing about it.. https://t.co/NHIPfXRs0Y

— Wendy patterson (@wendyp4445) October 8, 2024

Not a peep.