‘Whatever we did was not enough’: How Salt Typhoon slipped through the government's blind spots

‘Whatever we did was not enough’: How Salt Typhoon slipped through the government's blind spots

The first time some of the largest telecom companies in the world heard of Salt Typhoon was in a Wall Street Journal article. The story, which was published last September, blindsided company executives and industry insiders. As news of the attack on the country’s broadband networks broke, the scope and severity of the breach became clear. The top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee dubbed it “the worst telecom hack in our nation’s his…