Cybersecurity staff at US phone provider T-Mobile identified and expelled Chinese hackers from its network in 2024 during a spate of industry-wide hacks by Beijing to steal customer data, and Bloomberg has now published a report on the event. T-Mobile’s security team resorted to an unusually low-tech fix for a high-tech problem in 2024, physically severing a network cable to cut off Chinese state-backed hackers’ access to its systems.[1]
The dramatic move came amid a sprawling espionage campai
