The FBI announced that it discovered a “broad and significant” espionage campaign from the Chinese government.
According to the FBI, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) targeted “commercial telecommunications infrastructure.”
The agency explained that it identified China-linked individuals who have compromised various networks in an effort to seize customer call records data. Specifically, the actors sought information on a “limited number of individuals who are involved in government or political activity.”
Hackers also sought to copy “certain information that was subject to U.S. law enforcement requests pursuant to court orders,” the FBI said.
Last month, reports circulated that President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect JD Vance’s phones were hacked by Chinese actors. The reports have not been independently verified.
The Trump campaign told The Epoch Times at the time that the alleged hack was the “continuation of election interference by Kamala Harris and Democrats who will stop at nothing, including emboldening China and Iran attacking critical American infrastructure, to prevent President Trump from returning to the White House.”
”Their dangerous and violent rhetoric has given permission to those who wish to harm President Trump,” Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung said in October.
