National Security Agency Director Gen. Timothy Haugh said the Chinese communist regime-backed hack on major American telecommunications companies is under investigation.
The hack was first reported by The Wall Street Journal on Oct. 5.
Haugh told a small group of reporters on Oct. 6 at The Cipher Brief conference that details about the investigation could not yet be made public. According to The Wall Street Journal, hackers had access to several broadband providers, including AT&T, Verizon, and Lumen Technologies, for months or longer, amounting to a major national security risk.
“We’re really at an initial stage,” he said, according to The Cipher Brief, noting that the intelligence agencies have seen that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is “going to be very aggressive” in targeting critical infrastructure. […]
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