Chinese hackers target Trump's and Vance's phones in breach
The New York Times reported that Chinese hackers broke into the phones of Republican presidential and Vice presidential candidates Donald Trump and J.D. Vance. The newspaper's information does not reveal whether confidential data was stolen from the devices.
6:02 AM EDT, October 26, 2024
Trump's team was informed this week that he and Vance were among the individuals whose devices were attacked through an infiltration of 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, as described by the newspaper.
Reports of Chinese infiltration raise many concerns due to the presidential election, which will take place on November 5. During this campaign, the camp of former President Trump was already targeted by Iranian hackers, who tried to gain access to the contents of Republicans' computers by sending fake emails.
