{"id":2384260,"date":"2024-12-28T14:02:01","date_gmt":"2024-12-28T19:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ninth-telecoms-firm-hit-by-massive-chinese-espionage-campaign-white-house-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-12-28T14:03:28","modified_gmt":"2024-12-28T19:03:28","slug":"ninth-telecoms-firm-hit-by-massive-chinese-espionage-campaign-white-house-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ninth-telecoms-firm-hit-by-massive-chinese-espionage-campaign-white-house-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Ninth telecoms firm hit by massive Chinese espionage campaign: White House &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fninth-telecoms-firm-hit-by-massive-chinese-espionage-campaign-white-house-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2384260&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article reports that a ninth telecommunications company in the United States\u2062 has been hacked, part of a widespread espionage campaign attributed to\u2063 China. According to\u2064 a senior official from \u2063the White House, this breach allowed Chinese officials to access private communications, including texts and phone calls, from\u2062 a\u200d number of Americans. The \u200cBiden administration \u2064has acknowledged\u2062 the \u200dseriousness of this \u200bissue and\u2063 has been informing \u200crelevant parties about the \u200congoing\u2062 threat posed \u2062by these cyber \u200cintrusions.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Ninth telecoms firm hit by massive Chinese espionage campaign: White House<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1922721\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>WASHINGTON (AP) &mdash;<\/strong> A ninth U.S. telecoms firm has been confirmed to have been hacked as part of a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/china-fbi-hacking-flax-typhoon-trump-ed1c4c2cf6fc3b07834c799add215f44\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">sprawling Chinese espionage campaign<\/a>&nbsp;that gave officials in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/china\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Beijing<\/a>&nbsp;access to private texts and phone conversations of an unknown number of Americans, a top White House official said Friday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Biden administration officials said&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/china-hack-us-telecoms-salt-typhoon-88cabc592dae2fa870772c5ce4ace5ea\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">this month that at least eight telecommunications companies<\/a>, as well as dozens of nations, had been affected by the Chinese hacking blitz known as Salt Typhoon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3233698\/vivek-ramaswamy-says-federal-agencies-can-be-deleted-can-trump-do-that\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><strong>VIVEK RAMASWAMY SAYS FEDERAL AGENCIES CAN BE &lsquo;DELETED.&rsquo; CAN TRUMP DO THAT?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But deputy national security adviser Anne Neuberger told reporters Friday that a ninth victim had been identified after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/donald-trump-transgenderism-ensures-gop-is-the-party-of-women\/\" title=\"Donald Trump: Transgenderism Ensures GOP Is the Party of Women\">administration released guidance<\/a> to companies about how to hunt for Chinese culprits in their networks.<\/p>\n<p>The update from Neuberger is the latest development in a massive hacking operation that has <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">alarmed national security officials<\/a>, exposed cybersecurity vulnerabilities in the private sector and laid bare China&rsquo;s hacking sophistication.<\/p>\n<p>The hackers compromised the networks of telecommunications companies to obtain customer call records and gain access to the private communications of what officials have said is a limited number of individuals. Though the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/FBI\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">FBI<\/a> has not publicly identified any of the victims, officials believe senior U.S. government officials and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/as-republican-julia-letlow-is-sworn-in-the-democrats-margin-in-the-house-shrinks-to-just-2-votes\/\" title=\"As Republican Julia Letlow Is Sworn In, The Democrats\u2019 Margin In The House Shrinks To Just 2 Votes\">prominent political figures<\/a> are among those whose communications were accessed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/3233838\/which-jan-6-defendants-could-see-pardons\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><strong>WHICH JAN. 6 DEFENDERS COULD SEE PARDONS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Neuberger said Friday that officials did not yet have a precise sense how many Americans overall were affected by Salt Typhoon, in part because the Chinese were careful about their techniques, but that a &ldquo;large number&rdquo; were in the Washington-Virginia area.<\/p>\n<p>Officials believe the goal of the hackers was to identify who owned the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/smartphones\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">phones<\/a> and, if they were &ldquo;government targets of interest,&rdquo; spy on their texts and phone calls, she said.<\/p>\n<p>The FBI said most of the people targeted by the hackers are &ldquo;primarily involved in government or political activity.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Neuberger said the episode highlighted the need for required cybersecurity practices in the telecommunications industry, something the Federal Communications Commission is to take up at a meeting next month. In addition, she said, the government was planning additional actions in coming weeks in response to the hacking campaign, though she did not say what they were.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We know that voluntary cyber security practices are inadequate to protect against China, Russia, and Iran hacking of our critical infrastructure,&rdquo; she said.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese government has denied responsibility for the hacking.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1922721\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1922721\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ninth U.S. telecom hacked in extensive Chinese espionage, says White House<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2634,"featured_media":2384261,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/anne-neuberger-.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[4501,19536,12646,47521,32127],"class_list":["post-2384260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-china","tag-cybersecurity","tag-espionage","tag-telecoms","tag-white-house"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/anne-neuberger-.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2384260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2634"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2384260"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2384260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2384264,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2384260\/revisions\/2384264"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2384261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2384260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2384260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2384260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}