Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas called a Chinese hacking campaign targeting US telecoms 'very, very serious' and ongoing. The campaign, dubbed Salt Typhoon, has compromised several US and international telecom providers. Mayorkas confirmed the US is taking action and working with telecom companies to mitigate the breach. The White House and other officials have accused China of conducting the operation.
A sweeping Chinese government hacking campaign against American telecoms firms is a “very, very serious matter” that is “still going on,” Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said Thursday in an interview on MSNBC. Mayorkas confirmed that the long-term effort, nicknamed Salt Typhoon, was “a very sophisticated hack” that was not done “overnight.” The hacking campaign is one of the largest intelligence compromises in U.S. history.
It has breached eight domestic telecom and internet service providers and dozens of others around the world, a White House official said earlier this month. The U.S., Australia, Canada and New Zealand claim it is part of an intelligence operation conducted by China. The presidential campaigns of Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, as well as the office of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., told NBC News in October that the FBI had informed them that they had been targeted. Mayorkas said the federal government has “taken action,” and the “telecom providers are focused intensely on it, and they are working in partnership with us to remediate it.” The New York Times reported on Monday that the data Salt Typhoon has given Beijing a road map that will help it determine which Chinese spies have been identified by U.S. officials and which have not. Mayorkas confirmed that the Commerce Department issued a notice last week to China Telecom Americas, the American subsidiary of one of China’s largest communications companies. The notice said that the department had reached a preliminary finding that China Telecom America's provision of cloud services and its presence in American networks posed a national security risk to the U.S. Mayorkas said the firm had 30 days to respond. “It’s very important to send a message and the message has substance to it,” he said. “It’s not purely symbolic.” Defending response to drones Mayorkas repeated that U.S. officials believed that the sightings of drones in the northeastern U.S
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