A Department of Homeland Security memo, obtained by Property of the People through a freedom of information request, reveals the group — suspected to have links to China — “extensively compromised a U.

Chinese hackers infiltrated the network of at least one state's National Guard and remained in its systems for over nine months, a Department of Homeland Security memo says. The findings, as first reported by NBC News,

The Chinese state-sponsored hacking group known as Salt Typhoon breached and remained undetected in a U.S. Army National Guard network for nine months in 2024, stealing network configuration files and administrator credentials that could be used to compromise other government networks.