A cyberattack tied to the Chinese government penetrated the networks of a swath of US broadband providers, potentially accessing information from systems the federal government uses for court-authorized network wiretapping requests.
These attackers also had access to other tranches of more generic Internet traffic, according to the WSJ's sources. The attack is being attributed to a Chinese hacking group called Salt Typhoon.
The Washington Post reported on the hacking campaign yesterday, describing it as an audacious espionage operation likely aimed in part at discovering the Chinese targets of American surveillance.
Verizon reportedly set up a war room at its facility in Ashburn, Virginia, where it is working with personnel from the FBI, Microsoft, and Google subsidiary Mandiant.
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