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T-Mobile US monitoring China's 'Industry-wide Attack' amid fresh Security Breach Fears.

T-Mobile has joined a list of major organizations like AT&T, Verizon & Lumen Technologies that have been singled out as part of what appears to be a full-blown Chinese threat actors cyber espionage campaign.

https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/t-mobile-hacked-in-massive-chinese-breach-of-telecom-networks-4b2d7f92

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U.S. telecoms giant T-Mobile has confirmed that it was also among the companies that were targeted by Chinese threat actors to gain access to valuable information. The adversaries, tracked as Salt Typhoon, breached the company as part of a "monthslong campaign" designed to harvest cellphone communications of "high-value intelligence targets." It's not clear what information was taken, if any, during the malicious activity. "T-Mobile is closely monitoring this industry-wide attack, and at this time, T-Mobile systems and data have not been impacted in any significant way, and we have no evidence of impacts to customer information," a spokesperson for the company was quoted as saying to The Wall Street Journal. "We will continue to monitor this closely, working with industry peers and the relevant authorities."
The FBI and CISA noted that the cyber-attacks the telecoms providers resulted in the "theft of customer call records data, the compromise of private communications of a limited number of individuals who are primarily involved in government or political activity, and the copying of certain information that was subject to US law enforcement requests pursuant to court orders." Previous reports suggested that the Chinese snoops, after breaking into the telco’s networks, accessed the wiretapping backdoor-like systems used for court-ordered surveillance and targeted phones belonging to people affiliated with US Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris, as well as Republican president-elect Donald Trump and VP-elect JD Vance. <https://www.fbi.gov/news/press-releases/joint-statement-from-fbi-and-cisa-on-the-peoples-republic-of-china-targeting-of-commercial-telecommunications-infrastructure>
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