Regarding an alleged China intrusion, White House officials meet with telecom executives.

Telecommunications executives and senior White House officials met Friday to talk about China's "significant cyber espionage campaign targeting the sector," according to the White House. China-affiliated hackers broke into an unknown number of telecom businesses earlier this month, according to U.S. authorities, and collected surveillance material meant for U.S. law enforcement agencies.

The Senate Intelligence Committee chairman, Senator Mark Warner, told the Washington Post on Thursday that the intrusion was the "worst telecom hack in our nation's history - by far." Jake Sullivan, national security advisor, and Anne Neuberger, deputy national security adviser for cyber and emerging technology, held the White House meeting.

"The gathering provided a chance to hear from executives in the telecommunications industry about how the U.S. Government might collaborate with and assist the private sector on hardening against sophisticated nation-state attacks," the White House said in a statement.  The CEOs who attended the meeting and the names of the telecom companies were not made public by the White House. Beijing has consistently refuted allegations made by the U.S. government and others that it has breached foreign computer systems through the use of hackers.

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