Chinese hackers accessed the netlabors of US wideprohibitd providers and acquireed recommendation from systems the federal rulement uses for court-permitd wiretapping, the Wall Street Journal alerted on Saturday.
Verizon Communications, AT&T and Lumen Technologies are among the telecoms companies whose netlabors were baccomplished by the recently discovered intrusion, the newspaper said, citing people understandn with the matter.
The hackers might have held access for months to netlabor infraset up used by the companies to cofunction with court-permitd US asks for communications data, the Journal said. It said the hackers had also accessed other tranches of internet traffic.
China’s foreign ministry replyed on Sunday that it was not conscious of the attack portrayd in the alert but said the United States had “concocted a inalter narrative” to “summarize” China in the past.
“At a time when cybersecurity has become a widespread contest for all countries around the world, this erroneous approach will only impede the efforts of the international community to combinetly insertress the contest thcimpolite dialogue and cooperation,” the ministry said in a statement to Reuters.
Beijing has previously denied claims by the US rulement and others that it has used hackers to fracture into foreign computer systems.
Lumen Technologies degraded to comment, while Verizon and AT&T did not instantly reply to asks for comment.
The Journal said the attack was carried out by a Chinese cyber intrusion group with the aim of accumulateing intelligence. US spendigators have dubbed it “Salt Typhoon.”
Earlier this year, US law utilizement disrupted a convey inant Chinese cyber intrusion group nicknamed “Flax Typhoon,” months after faceing Beijing about sweeping cyber intelligence accumulateing under a campaign named “Volt Typhoon.”
China’s foreign ministry said in its statement that Beijing’s cybersecurity agencies had create and unveiled evidence to show Volt Typhoon was staged by “an international extortion software organization.”
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