Another security breach involving US telecom companies has come to light, with a third-party contractor that interfaces between some of the industry's big names reporting discovery of unauthorized access to their systems by nation-state hackers that began in late 2024 and continued through much of 2025.
A new report cites insider sources in naming Charter Communications, Consolidated Communications and Windstream among the breached US telecom companies. The sources also state that the Salt Typhoon campaign may have started in late 2023.
Chinese hackers may have had illicit access to a federal surveillance system for months before being discovered and rousted. The access was apparently gained by compromising US telecoms Verizon and AT&T.



