Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, and Dish have all been targets of hacks this year

2023 is shaping up to be the year of telecom hacks. All of the big 5G operators in the US – Verizon, T-Mobile, AT&T and Dish Network – have been involved in some kind of security incident already this year.

Broadly, the situation doesn’t come as a surprise. Hacks and other cybersecurity troubles have become de rigueur among corporate America in recent years as aging IT infrastructure struggles to withstand dramatic increases in the scope and scale of cyberattacks.

Indeed, the Biden administration this month issued a new vision for beefing up the nation’s collective cybersecurity posture. And in the telecom industry specifically, the GSMA trade group recently released a path for network operators to prepare for cyberthreats from quantum computers.

But that doesn’t appear to have stopped the attacks on US wireless network operators. Here are the latest security incidents:

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