A wide-scale cyber-attack on US phone carriers shows how deep chinese spies got into americas communications. Sen Mark R Warner (who leads Senate Intelligence Committee) pointed-out that its the biggest telecom breach ever seen in US history
The attack group named Salt-Typhoon didnt just break into one system — they managed to get into more than 12 different phone companies networks. These cyber-spies can do real-time listening of calls; whats more concerning they found ways to jump between different carriers systems using trust-based connections
This is the worst telecom hack in our nationʼs history — by far
The situation is still active with hackers maintaining their presence in these systems. Warner (who worked as telecom venture-capitalist before politics) knows first-hand how phone networks work: his background helps understand just how serious this breach is