The United States must do more to address hacking threats after China's alleged efforts known as Salt Typhoon to infiltrate American telecommunications companies and steal data about U.S. calls, senators said at a hearing Wednesday.

Though commonly referred to as Salt Typhoon, the group has also been dubbed GhostEmperor, FamousSparrow, Earth Estries, and UNC2286. The name "Salt Typhoon" was given to it by Microsoft, which uses "Typhoon" to label all nation-state threat actors from China.

U.S. government agencies will hold a classified briefing for the House of Representatives on Tuesday on China's alleged efforts known as Salt Typhoon to infiltrate American telecommunications companies and steal data about U.

Tech expert Kurt “CyberGuy" Knutsson discusses how Chinese cyber espionage targets U.S. telecoms to steal Americans' information.

Officials say a Chinese hacking group dubbed Salt Typhoon compromised at least eight of America’s telecoms networks. The intruders stole the call-record metadata of a “large number” of Americans. They gained access to the wiretap requests of security agencies—meaning they could work out if any Chinese spies or agents were under American surveillance.