US officials still working to evict Chinese hackers from major US telecom networks [Video]

U.S. officials are still trying to help major telecom providers evict Chinese government-backed hackers from their networks and don’t have a timeline for when that will be done, officials said Tuesday.”We’re still figuring out just how deeply and where they’ve penetrated, so until we have a complete picture, it’s hard to know the exact parameters of how to kick them off,” a senior official with the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) told reporters.”Most providers are still working to illuminate the full extent of the PRC activity,” a senior FBI official added, using an acronym for the Chinese government.The alleged Chinese hackers have gone after the phone communications of senior U.S. political figures such as President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect JD Vance, CNN has previously reported. The hacking effort has roiled Washington and is already shaping up to be a top national security challenge facing the incoming Trump …