Newspaper: Washington fears Chinese maintenance ships spying on Internet cables across the oceans

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The Wall Street Journal said that the United States fears that undersea fiber optic cables may be vulnerable to spying by Chinese maintenance and repair ships.

The newspaper article stated: “US officials informally sent an unusual warning to telecommunications companies: submarine cables that transmit Internet signals via ..."The Pacific Ocean may be vulnerable to manipulation and espionage by Chinese maintenance vessels."

The newspaper reported that giant American companies, such as Google and Meta Platforms, partly own a large number of cables, but they depend on construction and maintenance companies, some of which are owned by foreign citizens.

American officials fear that such a situation would jeopardize the security of commercial and military data.

According to the newspaper, the US State Department claims that SB Submarine Systems, which works in the field of repairing international cables, hides the location of its ships from surveillance devices and satellites.

According to the newspaper, the American side claims that the “Fu Hai”, “Fu Tai” and “Bold Maverick” ships, when operating off the coasts of Taiwan, Indonesia and other coastal areas in Asia, periodically disappear from the maps of ship tracking services, sometimes for several days, which is something It has no reasonable and acceptable explanation.

But the Chinese side has always categorically denied the espionage accusations, and called for an end to the dissemination of this false information.