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Salt Typhoon breaches US telecoms networks
US agencies confirmed China-linked Salt Typhoon had broken into several telecoms carriers, stealing call records and targeting lawful-intercept systems.
- Organisation
- US telecoms (Salt Typhoon)
- Disclosed
- 13 November 2024
- Affected
- Not stated
- Data
- Call records, wiretap systems
- Attacker
- Salt Typhoon (China)
- Severity
- critical
- Region
- Global
- Source
- Infosecurity Magazine ↗
Cite this
Nuffield Consulting, “Salt Typhoon breaches US telecoms networks”, The Daily Tech Wire outage & breach log, 13 Nov 2024. https://techwire.nuffieldconsulting.com/incidents/2024-11-13-us-telecoms-salt-typhoon-breach/ (retrieved 15 Nov 2026).
This entry summarises public reporting. Please also cite the original source: Infosecurity Magazine, https://infosecurity-magazine.com/news-features/top-cyber-attacks-2024.
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