U.S. officials warn companies of undersea cable tampering, WSJ says

U.S. officials have warned telecommunication companies that undersea cables that ferry internet traffic across the Pacific ocean are vulnerable to tampering by Chinese repair ships, Dustin Volz, Drew FitzGerald, Peter Champelli, and Emma Brown of The Wall Street Journal reports. State Department officials said a state-controlled Chinese company that repairs international cables are hiding its vessels’ location, which officials said defied easy explanation. Silicon Valley giants, such as Google (GOOGL) and Meta Platforms (META), partly own many cables and are investing in more.