Republican vice presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance said on Oct. 31 that his phone was hacked by Chinese entities.
Speaking during an episode of the “The Joe Rogan Experience” podcast, Vance said that Chinese hackers breached his cellphone but that most of his messages were encrypted using third-party apps such as Signal.
“I don’t think that they got really anything. We’ll find out. Apparently they couldn’t get the encrypted messages that were sent,” Vance said.
The confirmation was made less than a week after the FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) published a joint statement acknowledging an investigation into “the unauthorized access to commercial telecommunications infrastructure.”
The statement said the agencies “immediately notified affected companies, rendered technical assistance, and rapidly shared information to assist other potential victims.”
Vance claimed that the China-based hackers were able to breach his phone using back-end infrastructure originally created to accommodate the Patriot Act and FISA Section 702.
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