Congress Asks Telecom Executives to Testify on CCP Hack

‘It is clear that we face a cyber-adversary the likes of which we have never confronted before,’ the House Select Committee on the CCP said in a letter.

Rep. John Moolenaar (R-Mich.), chairman of the House Select Committee on the CCP, speaks at a roundtable event in Washington on May 23, 2024. Courtesy of the House Select Committee on the CCP

Rep. John Moolenaar (R-Mich.), chair of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, and ranking member Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Ill.) sent a letter to the CEOs of Verizon, AT&T, and Lumen Technologies on Oct. 10, seeking answers after the companies were reported hacked by a group with ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

The Wall Street Journal first reported the hack, writing that several telecom companies, including the three named, were victims of a CCP-backed cyberattack and that hackers had access to the networks for months or longer.