China, Wray said, has access to "critical telecommunications, energy, water and other infrastructure sectors.”

Authorities in multiple states had to provide residents with alternative means for contacting emergency services.

Thursday evening’s outages followed an hours-long outage of the Meta platforms Facebook and Instagram on Tuesday.

The outages prevented some users from calling 911 in case of emergency, prompting warnings from some local authorities.

The man was accused of helping lead a racketeering enterprise that infected thousands of business computers with malicious software.

"The TSA program is a precursor to a full-blown national surveillance state," one senator, who proposes to ban the tech, said.

"It would be really difficult for anyone to detect these," a security expert said regarding the data-theft devices.

A water facility north of Pittsburgh was hacked Saturday by an Iranian-back cyber group, according to the local water authority

A massive cyberattack released personal information, including Social Security numbers, of potentially all 1.38 million residents of Maine.

A cyberattack against MGM Resorts led to the casino giant shutting down computer systems at properties across the U.S.