{"id":34004,"date":"2024-10-07T01:19:10","date_gmt":"2024-10-06T22:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=34004"},"modified":"2024-10-07T01:19:10","modified_gmt":"2024-10-06T22:19:10","slug":"reports-chinese-hack-of-u-s-wiretapping-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/07\/reports-chinese-hack-of-u-s-wiretapping-systems\/","title":{"rendered":"Reports: Chinese Hack of U.S. Wiretapping Systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>Sudan Events &#8211; Agencies<\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">An American newspaper reported that Chinese cyber hackers gained access to U.S. broadband service providers&#8217; networks and obtained information from systems used by the U.S. government for wiretapping phone conversations, following court-approved requests.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The Wall Street Journal reported Saturday, citing sources, that Verizon Communications and Lumen Technologies were among the telecom companies whose networks were hacked, with the breach discovered recently.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The hackers may have had months-long access to the network infrastructure these companies use to cooperate with U.S. court-authorized requests for communications data, and they also managed to breach other internet-based systems.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">China&#8217;s Foreign Ministry responded Sunday, stating that it was unaware of the attack mentioned in the report but noted that the U.S. had previously &#8220;fabricated false claims&#8221; accusing China of cyberattacks.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The ministry&#8217;s statement added, &#8220;At a time when cybersecurity has become a common challenge for all countries around the world, such an erroneous approach will only hinder international efforts to address the challenge through dialogue and cooperation,&#8221; according to Reuters.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Beijing has denied past U.S. government allegations and others that it used cyber hackers to infiltrate foreign computer systems.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">According to Reuters, Verizon Communications and Lumen Technologies did not immediately respond to requests for comment.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The Wall Street Journal said the Chinese hacker group carried out the attack to gather intelligence.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sudan Events &#8211; Agencies An American newspaper reported that Chinese cyber hackers gained access to U.S. broadband service providers&#8217; networks and obtained information from systems used by the U.S. government for wiretapping phone conversations, following court-approved requests. The Wall Street Journal reported Saturday, citing sources, that Verizon Communications and Lumen Technologies were among the telecom &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33992,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34004"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34005,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34004\/revisions\/34005"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}