There were also reports Chinese hackers targeted telephones belonging to then-presidential and vice presidential candidates Donald Trump and JD Vance, along with other senior political figures, raising widespread concern over the security of U.S. telecommunications infrastructure.

The telecommunications hack earlier this month linked to Chinese hackers was the worst in U.S. history, according to the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. The FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) announced in mid-November that the intelligence community identified that Chinese-linked actors “have compromised networks at multiple telecommunications companies to enable the theft of customer call records data,