NSA's TAO hacked Huawei: China officially confirms

• China has officially confirmed that the US spy agency NSA hacked into Huawei's headquarters and carried out repeated cyberattacks.

• The Chinese State Security Ministry report accuses the NSA of systematic attacks on the telecoms giant and other targets in China and other countries.

• The report also reveals that the NSA targeted Northwestern Polytechnical University and accuses the US government of using cyberattack weapons against China and other countries for over 10 years.

• The report highlights the NSA's cyberwarfare intelligence-gathering unit, known as the Office of Tailored Access Operations (TAO), which hacked into Huawei's servers in 2009 and continued to monitor them.

• It also mentions the NSA's attempts to exploit Huawei's technology to gain access to computer and telephone networks in other countries.

Source : https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3235174/us-spy-agency-nsa-hacked-huawei-hq-china-confirms-snowden-leak

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