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U.S. telephone hulk T - Mobile said Wednesday that hackers had “ no access ” to its customer ’ calls , text message , and voicemails during an on-going industrywide cyberattack place internet and phone companies .
T - Mobile ’s chief certificate officer , Jeff Simon , saidin a statementthat the ship’s company detected in recent calendar week “ endeavor to pass through our systems , ” which Simon say originated from another telecom company connected to T - Mobile ’s connection . That company was n’t named .
“ We apace severed connectivity to the provider ’s net as we believe it was — and may still be — compromised , ” Simon said .
The Wall Street Journal reportedlast weekthat the China - stake hacking chemical group known as Salt Typhoon had compromised T - Mobile , along with several other telecom hulk , including AT&T , Verizon , and Lumen , as part ofa all-embracing espionage operationtargeting the communications of U.S. functionary and fourth-year Americans , include presidential candidates .
T - Mobile said Wednesday that it could not definitively key out the identity of the cyber-terrorist , but added : “ We do not see these or other attackers in our systems at this time . ” The company did not explicitly dominate out a previous encroachment of its systems , say that its cybersecurity defenses stopped the attackers “ from accessing sore client information . ”
When asked by TechCrunch , a T - Mobile spokesperson saidmetadataabout client phone outcry and text content , such as selective information about the caller , sender , and receiver , and the date and clip of communication theory , are consider “ sensitive ” customer phonograph recording and were not accessed .
“ We have robust technical means , including log , to be able-bodied to identify scourge and activity on our systems . It was this type of telemetry that enable us to quickly identify leery activity and take action mechanism to protect our systems and customers , ” order T - Mobile spokesperson Michelle Jacob .
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T - Mobile said it invested in cybersecurity hardening over previous eld , in large part because of legion information break thatcompromised one thousand thousand of T - Mobile customer ’ personal data .
U.S. cybersecurity agency CISA and the FBI said in a public alarm last week that China - backed hackers were targeting phone service as part of a “ broad and meaning cyber espionage campaign ” place tap systems , which U.S. phone and internet company arerequired by law to set up .
Senior U.S. officials have linked the Salt Typhoon campaign against telco as part of a broader try by China to lay the fundament for tumultuous cyberattacks inthe event of a succeeding conflict with the United States , such as an anticipate Chinese invasion of Taiwan .
