The Salt Typhoon telecom hack targeted senior American political figures, the White House says
Briefly

This is an ongoing effort by China to infiltrate telecom systems around the world, to exfiltrate huge amounts of data," Warner told the outlet.
With that access, they could potentially retrieve unencrypted communication (e.g., voice calls and text messages)," the report says.
We believe the calls they recorded and took was really more focused on very senior political individuals," she said.
The hack is the "worst telecom hack in our nation's history by far," Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Mark Warner told The Washington Post.
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