Kevin Collier is a reporter covering cybersecurity, privacy and technology policy for NBC News.
The vast majority of people whose call records have been stolen by Chinese hackers have not been notified, according to industry sources, and there is no indication that most affected people will be notified in the near future. The FBI, AT&T and Verizon — the two telecommunications companies the hacking campaign appears to have affected most severely — have for months alerted some victims whose phone calls were listened to or texts were read.
or the FBI,” the FBI official said. is the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. “Where we’ve actually been able to prove content intercept, whether text or audio, the FBI has made individual victim notifications to all of those individuals or to their counsel,” he said. Beyond AT&T and Verizon, other companies the Salt Typhoon campaign targeted have either said little about what the hackers accessed or said the hackers were not able to get much.
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