While the East Coast deals from Hurricanes Helene and Milton, the entire nation is now facing the consequences of a catastrophic cyber-attack from a group called “Salt Typhoon.”

Verizon and AT&T were reportedly among the affected internet service providers target by the group, which the Chinese Ministry of State Security reportedly backs.

The Wall Street Journal published an exclusive report indicating the hackers took advantage of information from U.S. federal government systems for court-authorized network wiretapping requests.

For months or longer, the hackers might have held access to network infrastructure used to cooperate with lawful U.S. requests for communications data, according to people familiar with the matter, which amounts to a major national security risk. The attackers also had access to other tranches of more generic internet traffic, they said....