Back in October, I wrote about the Chinese cyberattack that penetrated our telecommunications system, arguing that the damage done was unimaginably large.
At the time the government was releasing information in dribs and drabs. The spooks let us know that the breach was serious but made all sorts of noises about how the breaches were relatively limited and only affected individuals who the American government was already tracking for some reason.
I didn’t buy that story. I assumed that once the Chinese got into the systems, they could ransack the data at will, and it turns out that this is precisely what happened. If the Chinese hackers wanted access to anything about anybody, they were able to get it. Your data, your location, recordings of your calls–anything.
Let’s hope you aren’t that interesting to the Chinese, because if you are they likely have…
