The U.S. government has confirmed that hackers with links to China breached multiple U.S. telecommunication service providers to access the wiretap systems used by law enforcement to surveil Americans.
In a joint statement published on Monday, CISA and the FBI said they had uncovered “a broad and significant” cyber espionage campaign that saw PRC-affiliated actors compromise networks at “multiple telecommunications companies” in the United States.
CISA and the FBI did not name the breached organizations, but AT&T, Lumen (formerly CenturyLink) and Verizon are among the telecom providers whose networks were breached, according to The Wall Street Journal.


