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T-Mobile's network was among the systems hacked in a damaging Chinese cyber-espionage operation that gained entry into multiple US and international telecommunications companies, The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday citing people familiar with the matter:
Hackers linked to a Chinese intelligence agency were able to breach T-Mobile as part of a monthslong campaign to spy on the cellphone communications of high-value intelligence targets, the Journal added, without saying when the attack took place.
[...] It was unclear what information, if any, was taken about T-Mobile customers' calls and communications records, according to the WSJ report.
[...] On Wednesday, The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the US cyber watchdog agency CISA said China-linked hackers have intercepted surveillance data intended for American law enforcement agencies after breaking into an unspecified number of telecom companies.
Earlier in October, the Journal reported that Chinese hackers accessed the networks of US broadband providers, including Verizon Communications, AT&T and Lumen Technologies and obtained information from systems the federal government uses for court-authorized wiretapping.
Previously: U.S. Wiretap Systems Targeted in China-Linked Hack
(Score: 2) by corey on Thursday November 21, @10:25PM
You're right, them and their puppet, NK are going all out, from the public articles and things I read.
I believe they are more involved in Ukraine than we realise, including authorising/encouraging NK troops and armaments for the Ukraine invasion. I would love to be a fly in the wall in the NSA or the US geo intelligence agency (can't remember the acronym), they must be aware of the movements of things over the China/Russia/NK borders at night. But what to do, that's the question. Anyway there's a whole discussion there.
I don't think cutting internet with China is going to do any good for anyone, there's a shitload of ecommerce comms from western businesses and retailers going there so that'll hurt us. But maybe we need to take some pain too.
There's a long-term problem in China, that being demographics. As I understand, the 1-child policy is coming back to bite bigtime. An absolutely outsized part of their population is working age right now, which is great for their economic growth now, but in the next decade they are retiring. There's nowhere near enough younger people to replace them so their economy is predicted to (and starting to) tank. And young people don't want more than 1-2 kids. Usually, in the past, countries start importing immigrants and foreign workers to fill the gap, but China will need up to a couple of hundred million. And who wants to go work in China? Not many, that's the problem so that isn't a fix. Their only option is automation, but that's also pushing it. The USA had a soft landing after the baby boomers (and they didn't have a 1-child policy), and they're now sustainable demographically. Anyway, how that relates to your anger at China - yeah maybe we should do more but maybe the above will help you feel better. :)