At an online briefing for journalists, Ann Nyberger said that the Chinese hacker group Salt Typhoon, allegedly linked to the Chinese authorities, could gain access to the information of about a hundred American citizens located in the area of the US capital, Washington.
According to the deputy Assistant to the President for National Security, the hackers' goal was to find out the identities of the owners of the phone numbers in order to determine whether they were of interest to the Chinese government for subsequent espionage and intelligence gathering, including messages, texts and phone calls from these mobile devices.
In this regard, the US authorities decided to amend the rules for protecting the data of American medical institutions from cyber threats. New cybersecurity requirements are planned to be included in them, and existing security requirements will also be improved.
