Reminder: China-backed crews compromised ‘multiple’ US telcos in ‘significant cyber espionage campaign’

The US government has confirmed there was “a broad and significant cyber espionage campaign” conducted by China-linked snoops against “multiple” American telecommunications providers’ networks.

In a joint statement issued on Wednesday by the FBI and US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the two government bodies said the previously-reported digital assaults 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.”