General Timothy Haugh, Director of the #NSA and Commander of #USCYBERCOM, said on Thursday that U.S. cyber defenses failed to identify recent Chinese breaches of American telecommunications networks, and were only made aware following an alert from Microsoft. “We did not see activity in U.S. telecommunications networks,”…A #MicrosoftFlare ultimately alerted the government to the breach that is now known as #SaltTyphoon…”