Salt Typhoon US telecom espionage campaign (2024)
China-linked Salt Typhoon infiltrated at least nine U.S. telecom providers — Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, Spectrum, Lumen, Consolidated, Windstream — including the CALEA lawful-intercept systems used for court-authorised wiretaps. Metadata for over a million users was exposed; the U.S. Treasury sanctioned a linked PRC contractor.
- Victim
- U.S. telecommunications providers (Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, Spectrum, Lumen, Consolidated Communications, Windstream)