Chinese cyber sabotage: Trump and Vance phones breached
The daily The New York Times reported that Chinese hackers breached the phones of Republican candidates for President and Vice President of the USA, Donald Trump and J.D. Vance. The newspaper's information does not reveal whether confidential data was stolen from the devices.
Trump's team was informed this week that he and Vance were among the individuals whose devices were attacked by infiltrating the Verizon mobile network operator system, NYT reported. The daily noted that some of the attacked devices belonged to people in U.S. President Joe Biden's administration.
Earlier this year, U.S. services identified a hacker group linked to China called Salt Typhoon, which operated within domestic mobile network systems. However, investigators have only now discovered that specific phone numbers were targeted, the newspaper reported.
Reports of Chinese infiltration raise many concerns due to the upcoming presidential election, which will take place on 5 November. During this campaign, the camp of former President Trump was already targeted by Iranian hackers, who attempted to access the contents of Republicans' computers by sending fake emails.
