China gained access to foreign network via Huawei employees  In August, Australia banned the Chinese telecom manufacturer from providing any equipment to its planned 5G mobile data network. Over the weekend, any rational person who doubted that decision saw just how wise it truly was. The Australian reported that ahead of Trade Minister Simon Birmingham’s planned trip to Shanghai, word leaked that Huawei employees had furnished China’s intelligence services with passwords and other information that allowed them to access “a foreign network.” The security breach was not necessarily recent, but was, the paper said, within the last two years. It is another piece of evidence that Huawei and and fellow Chinese firm ZTE are joined at the hip with Chinese spies. Any government or company that uses their equipment runs the risk of exposing every piece of traffic to Chinese eyes and ears.  Source