Chinese hackers breached US court wiretap systems, WSJ reports 

Reuters — 

Chinese hackers accessed the networks of U.S. broadband providers and obtained accusation from systems the national authorities uses for court-authorized wiretapping, The Wall Street Journal reported Saturday.

Verizon Communications, AT&T and Lumen Technologies are among the telecoms companies whose networks were breached by the precocious discovered intrusion, the paper said, citing radical acquainted with the matter.

The hackers mightiness person held entree for months to web infrastructure utilized by the companies to cooperate with court-authorized U.S. requests for communications data, the Journal said. It added that the hackers had besides accessed different tranches of net traffic.

China's overseas ministry responded Sunday that it was not alert of the onslaught described successful the study but said the United States had “concocted a mendacious narrative” to “frame” China successful the past.

"At a clip erstwhile cybersecurity has go a communal situation for each countries astir the world, this erroneous attack volition lone hinder the efforts of the planetary assemblage to jointly code the situation done dialog and cooperation," the ministry said successful a connection to Reuters.

Beijing has antecedently denied claims by the U.S. authorities and others that it has utilized hackers to interruption into overseas machine systems.

Lumen Technologies declined to comment, portion Verizon and AT&T did not instantly respond to requests for comment.

The Journal said the onslaught was carried retired by a Chinese hacking radical with the purpose of collecting intelligence. U.S. investigators person dubbed it "Salt Typhoon."

Earlier this year, U.S. instrumentality enforcement disrupted a large Chinese hacking radical nicknamed "Flax Typhoon," months aft confronting Beijing astir sweeping cyber espionage nether a run named "Volt Typhoon."

China’s overseas ministry said successful its connection that Beijing’s cybersecurity agencies had recovered and published grounds to amusement Volt Typhoon was staged by “an planetary ransomware organization.”