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FBI confirms China-backed hackers breached US telecom giants to steal wiretap data (techcrunch.com)

submitted 1 month ago by BrikoX to c/databreaches

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The U.S. government has confirmed that hackers with links to China breached multiple U.S. telecommunication service providers to access the wiretap systems used by law enforcement to surveil Americans.

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[–] BrikoX 23 points 1 month ago

Case in point why there is no such thing as "safe backdoors".

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No fair! They stole the data we stole!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

We stole that fair and square!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Whatever dont care. I would be worried more about the government I currently live under spying on me than I would about China stealing that data.