{"id":15607,"date":"2024-10-29T18:44:35","date_gmt":"2024-10-29T19:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=15607"},"modified":"2024-10-29T20:31:45","modified_gmt":"2024-10-29T20:31:45","slug":"trump-family-members-and-biden-aides-among-china-hack-targets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=15607","title":{"rendered":"Trump Family Members and Biden Aides Among China Hack Targets"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Phones used by Jared Kushner and Eric Trump were among those that hackers sought access to as part of a counterintelligence effort carried out by a hacking group associated with China.<\/p>\n

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Members of former President Donald J. Trump\u2019s family, as well as Biden administration and State Department officials, were among those targeted by the China-linked hackers who were able to break into telecommunications company systems, according to people familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n

The sophisticated hacking operation has alarmed national security officials and appears to have targeted a substantial but focused list of people whose communications would be of interest to the Chinese government. The list of known targets is currently fewer than 100 individuals, these people said, speaking on condition of anonymity to describe a sensitive ongoing investigation.<\/p>\n

So far, the list of targeted phones includes devices used by high-profile people, including Mr. Trump, his son Eric Trump and his son-in-law Jared Kushner. The list also includes members of Vice President Kamala Harris\u2019s campaign staff, as well as diplomatic, government and policy experts who are largely unknown to the general public but would hold significant interest to Chinese officials eager to learn more about internal U.S. policy-making, these people said. It is unclear what, if any, data was taken from those individuals.<\/p>\n

In a statement, Eric Trump sought to blame the Biden administration for the hacking of the telecommunications networks, saying, \u201cDoes this surprise anyone? Under Kamala and Biden, China has walked all over our country.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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An aide to Mr. Kushner did not respond to an email seeking comment.<\/p>\n

The Trump campaign team was notified last week that phones used by Mr. Trump and his running mate, Senator JD Vance of Ohio, were among those targeted through the infiltration of Verizon phone systems. Others targeted by the hackers have been receiving similar notifications from U.S. authorities.<\/p>\n

Democrats, including an aide to Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the majority leader, were also targeted, the people said.<\/p>\n

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Phones used by Jared Kushner and Eric Trump were among those that hackers sought access to as part of a counterintelligence effort carried out by a hacking group associated with China.Members of former President Donald J. Trump\u2019s family, as well as Biden administration and State Department officials, were among those targeted by the China-linked hackers who were able to break into telecommunications company systems, according to people familiar with the matter.The sophisticated hacking operation has alarmed national security officials and appears to have targeted a substantial but focused list of people whose communications would be of interest to the Chinese government. The list of known targets is currently fewer than 100 individuals, these people said, speaking on condition of anonymity to describe a sensitive ongoing investigation.So far, the list of targeted phones includes devices used by high-profile people, including Mr. Trump, his son Eric Trump and his son-in-law Jared Kushner. The list also includes members of Vice President Kamala Harris\u2019s campaign staff, as well as diplomatic, government and policy experts who are largely unknown to the general public but would hold significant interest to Chinese officials eager to learn more about internal U.S. policy-making, these people said. It is unclear what, if any, data was taken from those individuals.In a statement, Eric Trump sought to blame the Biden administration for the hacking of the telecommunications networks, saying, \u201cDoes this surprise anyone? Under Kamala and Biden, China has walked all over our country.\u201dAn aide to Mr. Kushner did not respond to an email seeking comment.The Trump campaign team was notified last week that phones used by Mr. Trump and his running mate, Senator JD Vance of Ohio, were among those targeted through the infiltration of Verizon phone systems. Others targeted by the hackers have been receiving similar notifications from U.S. authorities.Democrats, including an aide to Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the majority leader, were also targeted, the people said.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15609,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15607"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15610,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15607\/revisions\/15610"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}