The Wire - July 12, 2024

this is the wire for 2100 Zulu July 12th 2024 precedents is routine information cut off is 2000 bottom line up front Chinese activity continues in the Pacific AT&T reveals details of 20122 Cyber attack beginning with international events in the Far East Chinese activity continues to expand throughout the region yesterday a US Coast Guard Cutter began shadowing a pln task force operating off the coast of Alaska four pln vessels were conducting Maneuvers in the Bearing Sea within the United States economic exclusion Zone but remained within international waters approximately 100 nautical miles north of the amchitka pass in the Lucian Islands on the home front in the United States this morning AT&T revealed the damage caused by a major Cyber attack and data breach that took place in late 2022 AT&T stated that the phone call logs and text message data of quote nearly all customers was compromised Nationwide encompassing roughly 110 million Americans hackers were allegedly able to access AT&T's Cloud Server data but AT&T claims that the content of data pertaining to phone calls and text messages stored on their servers was not compromised AT&T also claims that customers names were not compromised however this data could easily be obtained by other means at least one person has reportedly been arrested in connection with the Cyber attack analyst comment AT&T claims this 2022 breach is somehow related to the recent snowflake data breach incident which has slowly increased in severity over the past month as forensic examination of the data Cloud giant reveals the true magnitude of the breach in North Carolina the controversy surrounding a training product referring to Peaceful pro-life groups has widened following additional information coming to light the national right to life committee has issued a statement in response to being categorized as a terror group in which they mentioned that the logo on the controversial training slide had been retired some time ago subsequent investigation by users on social media found evidence of that training product being used years ago with anecdotal testimony from soldiers familiar with the training product asserting that this PowerPoint slide deck has been in use for over a decade though this slad clim cannot be independently verified Beyond Reasonable Doubt Fort Liberty formerly Fort Brag has not responded to this latest information analyst Comas for this wire the Chinese activity in the Far East is probably related to a myriad of operational goals first and foremost China and Russia are currently conducting joint Naval Maneuvers and or drills which itself is probably scheduled to coincide with American rack 2024 exercises in the Pacific however however ever activity not traditionally part of the exercises has been noted such as the presence of PLA and vessels off the coast of Alaska China's long-standing deception Doctrine relies heavily on the theory of blending real world operational deployments with training exercises in theory this would allow China to creep ever closer to War under the guise of conducting training exercises on that front China has demonstrated significant gains right now China's new aircraft carrier the Shandong is conducting Maneuvers in the Western Pacific which is the first time China has proed rejected this much Naval power beyond the first island chain however as most of China's real world combat experience lies with the lessons learned during the Korean War most of China's military Doctrine especially amphibious operations or expeditionary campaigns remains largely untested in the modern battle space this strategic ambiguity makes it challenging to discern the true likelihood of China's aspirations being successful this concludes the wire for 2100 Zulu July 12th 2024