FBI, CISA say Chinese hackers breached telecom providers in targeted attack [Video]

The FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) said that People’s Republic of China (PRC) hackers breached commercial telecommunication service providers in the U.S.

The breached entities have been warned, and the agencies are proactively alerting other potential targets of elevated cyber activity.

“The U.S. government’s continued investigation into the People’s Republic of China (PRC) targeting of commercial telecommunications infrastructure has revealed a broad and significant cyber espionage campaign,” the agencies said Wednesday in a joint release.

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The agencies said that PRC-affiliated actors have compromised networks at multiple telecommunications companies to enable the theft of customer call record data, as well as private communications of a “limited number of individuals who are primarily involved in government or political …