Report: Chinese Hackers Breached U.S. Telecoms Earlier than Previously Known

Corporate investigators have reportedly discovered evidence that Chinese hackers infiltrated an American telecommunications company in the summer of 2023, suggesting that China’s attackers penetrated the U.S. communications system far earlier than publicly known.

Bloomberg reports that corporate investigators working for an unnamed U.S. telecommunications firm have uncovered that Chinese state-backed hackers had breached the company’s systems in the summer of 2023, nearly a year before the publicly disclosed Salt Typhoon espionage campaign targeting multiple US telecom providers. The discovery, which has not been previously reported, raises questions about the timeline of China’s foothold in the American communications industry.

According to two people familiar with the matter and an