Chinese hackers attacked Trump and Vance's phones the world

Foreign powers are trying to influence the US presidential elections. Russia's ongoing efforts are well known, and Iran has previously been identified as being behind the hacking of Trump campaign emails. Hackers suspected of being linked to China's intelligence service have reportedly broken into the systems of telecom giant Verizon New York Times.

The Wall Street Journal He has the same information as the New York Times and writes that “dozens” of companies and people have been affected and that the main targets lie within the absolute political top of the United States: the phones of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and running mate J.D. Vance are suspected of being compromised, as are members of the crew Kamala Harris. within

Investigators tracked down the hackers in September, and have since become increasingly aggressive in their tactics and attempted to disrupt federal and private investigators working on the case. Also among those exposed was a Wall Street Journal reporter who investigated the hack.

He blames Kamala Harris

FBI investigators are now trying to determine whether the hackers obtained any information and, if so, what, but the FBI is concerned that they may have obtained text messages, call logs and data about how long they spoke with certain people. . Such data would help a country like China identify high-ranking individuals for potential influence operations.

According to New York Times sources, the campaign was informed of the hack earlier this week and also learned that hackers still have access to Verizon systems. The campaign has not confirmed that Trump and Vance's phones were hacked, but Trump spokesman Stephen Cheung is now criticizing the White House and Kamala Harris for allowing a “foreign adversary” to work against their campaign.

The FBI confirmed it was investigating “unauthorized access to commercial communications infrastructure” linked to China. The Chinese embassy denies this.

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