A ninth US telecommunications firm was confirmed to have been hacked as part of a massive Chinese espionage operation. The operation, known as Salt Typhoon, gave officials in Beijing access to private text messages and phone conversations of an unknown number of Americans. A top White House official said Friday that the Biden administration believes senior US government officials and prominent political figures are among those whose communications were accessed.
Deputy national security adviser Anne Neuberger told reporters Friday that a ninth victim had been identified after the administration released guidance to companies about how to hunt for Chinese culprits in their networks. The update from Neuberger is the latest development in a massive hacking operation that has alarmed national security officials, exposed cybersecurity vulnerabilities in the private sector and laid bare China's hacking sophistication. The hackers compromised the networks of telecommunications companies to obtain customer call records and gain access to the private communications of what officials have said is a limited number of individuals. Neuberger said Friday that officials did not yet have a precise sense how many Americans overall were affected by Salt Typhoon, in part because the Chinese were careful about their techniques, but that a 'large number' were in the Washington-Virginia area. Officials believe the goal of the hackers was to identify who owned the phones and, if they were 'government targets of interest,' spy on their texts and phone calls. The FBI said most of the people targeted by the hackers are 'primarily involved in government or political activity
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