Late last month, the Wall Street Journal broke a story about a major hack into critical

U.S. infrastructure.

Cybersecurity experts believe it was carried out by to critical U.S. infrastructure.

Cybersecurity experts believe it was carried out by a Chinese group

called Salt Typhoon.

The Wall Street Journal reported that China linked hackers

have breached U. breached US internet providers.

It's aimed at accessing sensitive information and gaining footholds in critical broadband

networks.

Hackers potentially access the network the federal government uses to request court-authorize wiretapping for

criminal and national security investigations.

Our colleague Dustin Volts was one of the reporters on a story. He says the

hack has US officials freaking out. This hack is particularly alarming to government officials and security investigators

because they not only had deep access but they were extraordinarily stealthy

and were inside the networks for months months we've been told potentially even

far longer than that and there's deep concerns about the sensitive nature of data that was potentially compromised in these breaches.

So how big of a deal is this? This is potentially catastrophic. That is what we are hearing from officials and investigators familiar with the

breaches. The sort of level of panic is extremely unusual.

From my 10 years reporting on cyber security issues,

this is sort of very much ranking at the top of the list

for what seemingly people are concerned about.

They're putting this very much at the top of the list.

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