The U.S. government's ongoing probe into China-backed actors' attempts to hack into U.S. telecommunications infrastructure revealed a "broad and significant" espionage campaign targeted at those in government or political work, the FBI announced Wednesday.
The FBI, in a joint statement with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), said the hackers were able to disrupt multiple telecommunication companies to take customer call records data while compromising the private communications of some "who are primarily involved in government or political activity."
The FBI did not specify the names of any individuals who were targeted in the alleged hack.
The campaign also allegedly tried to copy "certain information that was subject to U.S. law enforcement requests pursuant to court orders," in a possible bid to compromise programs under........