China claims US hacked National Time Center using ‘42 cyber weapons’

China accused the United States of launching cyberattacks against its National Time Service Centre, warning that such actions could have threatened the stability of the country’s communication networks, financial systems, and power supply.

In a statement posted Sunday on the Chinese social media platform WeChat, the Ministry of State Security claimed that the US National Security Agency (NSA) exploited weaknesses in the messaging service of an unnamed foreign mobile phone brand to steal sensitive data from the devices of staff at the time centre in 2022.