The severity of the Chinese breach highlights the need for more telecommunications regulation, lawmakers say.
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Chair Mark Warner, D-Va., on Capitol Hill, in Washington, Sept. 18, 2024.
Those records could provide further information to help the Chinese identify other people whose devices they want to target, he said. “My hair’s on fire,” Warner said. The Salt Typhoon telecom breach makes Colonial Pipeline and SolarWinds - major cyberattacks linked, respectively, to Russian-speaking criminals and to the Russian government - “look like child’s play,” Warner said.
The Post previously reported that the hackers were able to reconfigure Cisco routers to exfiltrate data from Verizon networks.
“We’re the telecom envy of the world,” Warner said. “I don’t want to slow that innovation. I don’t want to come in with some new, heavy-handed regulation. This ought to just be about safety and security.” After consultation with the companies, the Transportation Security Administration issued several revisions,
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