A breach of telecoms companies that the United States said was linked to China was the "worst telecom hack in our nation's history - by far", the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee told the Washington Post on Thursday.

The Chinese government espionage campaign that has deeply penetrated more than a dozen U.S. telecommunications companies is the “worst telecom hack in our nation’s history — by far,” a senior U.S. senator told The Washington Post in an interview this week.

Mark Warner, a Democrat from Virginia, spoke with the Washington Post and New York Times this week to warn the public that this is so much worse than we initially thought, dubbing it “the worst telecom hack in our nation’s history.

China’s recent breach of the innermost workings of the U.S. telecommunications system reached far deeper than the Biden administration has described, the chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee said Thursday,