China has blamed the US for a "major cyberattack" against its National Time Service Center, alleging it could have disrupted the country's communications, financial, and transportation networks, and even caused power outages.

In a Sunday WeChat post , the Ministry of State Security (MSS) said it uncovered "irrefutable evidence" that the US National Security Agency (NSA) exploited a security flaw in a foreign mobile phone brand's messaging service to hijack phones and steal sensitive data belonging to China's National Time Service Center employees beginning in late March 2022, according to a Google translation of the Chinese-language statement.

China's intelligence service also alleged that, in April 2023, the NSA used stolen credentials to break into the Time Service Center's computers a

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