More telcos confirm Salt Typhoon breaches as White House weighs in
Published on January 1, 2025
AT&T, Verizon, and Lumen Technologies confirmed that Chinese government-backed snoops accessed portions of their systems earlier this year, while the White House added another, yet-unnamed telecommunications company to the list of those breached by Salt Typhoon.
The digital intrusion, which has been called the "worst telecom hack in our nation's history," gave Beijing-backed spies the "capability to geolocate millions of individuals" and "record phone calls at will," Anne Neuberger, deputy national security advisor for cyber and emerging technology, told reporters.