Kelsey Griffiths

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KCBS Bloomberg Tech and Business Report · U.S. telecom networks exposed to Chinese hackers · 5 Aug 2026 podcast

So basically, data centers have functioned on

the edges of commercial networks because they're not a direct to consumer service.

Generally, they're more of a business enterprise service and that is not directly regulated by the FCC or any other national government agency.

And so this report says that Chinese telecom companies, even though they can't offer retail services in the US anymore,

maintained a presence in these enterprise data centers, including having visibility into network traffic, interconnecting with some of these data centers, and potentially being able to monitor some of the traffic that came through those data centers.

Yes, there is physical hardware.

There are relationships with, they're called peering relationships, where you basically just have operations inside of a data center.

The report describes it as if a fleet of delivery trucks was suddenly told they couldn't do deliveries anymore, but they still left the trucks running.

All of the trucks were parked in the driveway or in the garage, and all of the physical pieces of that operation were still in place.

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr has said for a long time that data centers and some of these more peripheral enterprise business relationships in the telecom sector are kind of a hidden blind spot.

And he has said that it has allowed the Chinese government to do an end run around the FCC's general security processes.

There's an effort right now, both at the FCC and in Congress, to try to expand the FCC's authority so that they don't just regulate the retail services that are available to consumers, but they also have more oversight over some of these enterprise technology operations.

There's still so many details that we don't know about the salt typhoon intrusion campaign, but it does seem at least that they were looking for any information that would be relevant, particularly politically.

And they cast a pretty broad net.

So far, there has been no blame assigned.

And actually, the language that we've heard, especially in Congress around this, has been this is no one carrier's fault.

This is a nationwide threat to our national security, and it's something that we have to address on the national level.

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