From AT&T to Roku, plenty of companies reported being hacked in 2024. And then there was Salt Typhoon.
2024 was another year when it seemed like every company in the telecom industry suffered from a hack.
Indeed, a recent report from Nokia shows that cyberattacks on telecom infrastructure are growing exponentially. Distributed denial of service (DDoS) traffic, for example, increased a whopping 166% between June 2023 and June 2024. And in many networks such attacks are becoming more frequent, growing from just one or two a day to "well over 100 per day," according to Nokia.
Then in October, coincidentally the same month Nokia released its report, Salt Typhoon arrived. Widely viewed as the biggest hack ever, Chinese spies appear to have broken into US telecom networks operated by the likes of AT&T and Verizon, giving them the ability to listen in on Americans' calls and read their texts.
Here's a recap of the year in hacks:
December 6, 2024 - Is Salt Typhoon a material threat to telecom?
October 14, 2024 - AT&T, Verizon, Lumen face questions over Chinese hack
October 9, 2024 - Telecom is already preparing for future quantum threats
August 15, 2024 - T-Mobile hit with $60M fine over data security violations
June 21, 2024 - Optus domain unsecured for four years led to data breach – ACMA
April 12, 2024 - Roku launches countermeasures after nearly 600K accounts were hacked
March 19, 2024 - Telecom store manager pleads guilty to selling SIM swaps for $1,000
February 14, 2024 - Is T-Mobile's AI training model the reason it keeps getting hacked?
January 18, 2024 - Kyivstar to lose out on $95M because of December cyberattack
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