By David Shepardson
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate Judiciary subcommittee, which oversees technology issues, will hold a hearing on Tuesday on Chinese hacking incidents, including the latest incident involving U.S. telecom companies.
The hearing, chaired by Senator Richard Blumenthal, will “examine the threats posed by Chinese hacking and influence to our democracy, national security and economy,” his office said, adding that the senator “has Elon Musk’s The plan is to raise concerns about potential conflicts of interest as Mr. Musk becomes increasingly involved in government affairs.”
Musk, head of electric car company Tesla (NASDAQ: ), social media platform X and rocket company SpaceX, emerged as a major supporter of US President-elect Donald Trump during the election campaign. Trump appointed him as co-head of a newly created Department of Government Efficiency to “reduce redundant regulations, cut wasteful spending, and restructure federal agencies.”
Musk, who was in China in April and reportedly proposed testing Tesla’s advanced driver assistance package in China by deploying it to Robotex, did not immediately return a request for comment.
The hearing was attended by CrowdStrike (NASDAQ:) Senior Vice President Adam Meyers and Telecommunications Industry Association CEO David Stellen, Strategy Risks CEO Isaac Stonefish and Research Fellow at Georgetown University’s Center for Security and Emerging Technologies. Sam Bresnick will join.
Last week, hackers linked to China intercepted surveillance data for U.S. law enforcement agencies after breaking into an unspecified number of telecom companies, U.S. officials said Wednesday.
According to a joint statement released by the FBI and US Cyber, the hackers compromised the networks of “several telecommunications companies” and stole the call records and communications of US consumers to “a limited number of individuals who were primarily but involved in government or political activities”. Watchdog agency CISA.
The announcement confirmed a broad outline of previous media reports that Chinese hackers had opened a backdoor into interception systems used by law enforcement agencies to monitor Americans’ telecommunications. is given
It follows reports that Chinese hackers targeted telephones belonging to then-presidential and vice-presidential candidates Donald Trump and JD (NASDAQ: ) Vance, who along with other senior political figures has made major contributions to the security of the US telecommunications infrastructure. Expressed concern over the scale.
Beijing has repeatedly denied claims by the US government and others that it has used hackers to break into foreign computer systems.
Last month, a bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers asked AT&T (NYSE: Verizon Communications (NYSE: ) and Lumen Technologies to answer questions about reporting hacking of US broadband providers’ networks.
