T-Mobile ‘chopped a cable’ to expel Chinese hackers from its network

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    "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/19/t-mobile-chopped-a-cable-to-expel-chinese-hackers-from-its-network/",
    "title": "T-Mobile ‘chopped a cable’ to expel Chinese hackers from its network",
    "author": "Zack Whittaker",
    "excerpt": "New reporting from Bloomberg revealed how cybersecurity staff at U.S. phone provider T-Mobile identified and expelled Chinese hackers from its network in 2024 during a spate of industry-wide intrusions by Beijing aimed at stealing customer data. The hacks were carried out by a Chinese government-backed hacking group called Salt Typhoon . The campaign compromised hundreds of phone companies, internet giants, and datacenter providers with the goal of collecting phone records and information about senior U.S. government officials, including then-presidential candidates. Hacked companies included AT&T, Verizon , satellite phone network Viasat , and network infrastructure giants Charter and Windstream . By and large, T-Mobile escaped a widescale breach of its network by catching the activity early - and resorted to physically cutting the cable to a compromised system, per Bloomberg. The publication said T-Mobile’s cyber staff spent months looking for suspected hackers in its network without success. Eventually, the company found unusual behavior on one of its systems coming from another router belonging to a different telecom company, which T-Mobile did not name. After identifying the breach, T-Mobile’s cybersecurity chief Jeff Simon told Bloomberg that he and three others drove to the nearby Bellevue, Washington, data center, found the compromised system, pulled out a set of...",
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