The cyberattack acccessed systems used for court-authorized wiretaps to collect internet traffic from millions of Americans.

Chinese government hackers penetrated the networks of several large US-based Internet service providers and may have gained access to systems used for court-authorized wiretaps of communications networks,

Hackers tied to the Chinese government compromised the law enforcement wiretap network of U.S. telecom companies, and security analysts aren't sure how bad it is yet.