Verizon, AT&T, and Lumen Technologies were among the US broadband providers whose networks were reportedly hacked by Chinese cyberspies, possibly compromising the wiretapping systems used for court-ordered surveillance. Salt Typhoon, the Beijing-linked crew that the American public first learned about last month after the espionage gang was spotted on US internet service providers’ networks, gained a foothold in at least these three telecommunications giants’ infrastructure, according to a Wall Street Journal report.  After breaking into the carriers’ networks, the Chinese government-backed snoops may have had access to systems the communications providers use to share domestic data with law enforcement requests, along with more “generic internet traffic”

Source: The Register