By Free Republic | Created at 2024-10-25 23:28:57 | Updated at 2024-10-26 01:24:26
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Chinese hackers tried to break into Donald Trump and JD Vance’s cellphones: report
The New York Pist ^ | 10/25/2024 | Josh Christenson
Posted on 10/25/2024 4:25:39 PM PDT by thegagline
Chinese hackers tried to break into the cellphones of former President Donald Trump and GOP vice presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance by compromising US telecommunications systems, a shocking breach revealed 11 days before the US election.
The sophisticated hacking campaign targeted Verizon and may have gained access to data or messages sent by Trump, 78, and Vance, 40. The hack was first reported Friday by the New York Times.
Trump and Vance were only informed of the situation this week, though it remains unclear how many communications — encrypted or unencrypted — were obtained or may be still accessible by one of America’s chief adversaries.
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Security officials uncovered the exact phone numbers targeted after learning earlier this year that a China-linked hacking group, Salt Typhoon, had infiltrated US telecoms systems.
The Chinese cyberattack of US broadband providers’ networks — including Verizon, AT&T and Lumen — may have also gotten access to data that the feds companies hand over to comply with any requests from the feds under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), the Wall Street Journal reported in September.
Beijing’s intelligence services are believed to be behind the attack, which the Journal noted could also be seeking to monitor federal law enforcement — and had even unsuccessfully targeted one of their own journalists.
The FBI and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) acknowledged “unauthorized access to commercial telecommunications infrastructure by actors affiliated with the People’s Republic of China” in a joint statement Friday.
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Federal prosecutors said the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) hackers barraged four Trump campaign operatives, current and former US government officials, journalists and others with phishing emails and were able to access some data of those who fell for the scheme by clicking links. ***
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TOPICS: China; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bidencrimefamily; ccp; china; manchuriancandidate
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