On February 12, the Wall Street Journal quoted US officials as saying that Huawei may have had unauthorized access to the infrastructure of the carriers that they supply hardware components through the back door in the device.
For its part, Huawei is outraged and believes the allegations are illogical and discriminatory. At the same time, the Chinese telecom giant sharply criticized the Wall Street Journal for undermining Huawei's reputation.
"The US accusation of Huawei stealing information from operators is illogical. We have never and will never have access to telecommunications infrastructure, not to mention we are not able to. do that, "Huawei said in a statement.
Huawei also emphasized that it is only a device supplier and can not arbitrarily access the infrastructure of the network. "We are unable to bypass the control of carriers to access and retrieve their data without being detected by security systems," the company said.
Earlier, the Wall Street Journal reported that the US side detected backdoors on Huawei 4G devices sold to carriers since 2009. "We have evidence that Huawei is able to secretly access sensitive information in the US. the systems it operates and sells around the world, "said Robert O'Brien, US national security advisor.
Since May, Huawei has been blacklisted by the United States for allegedly stealing trade secrets, violating Iran sanctions and espionage. In addition, Donald Trump also signed an order banning the company from participating in the deployment of 5G network infrastructure in the United States.
Not stopping, the US also called on allied nations not to use Huawei's 5G telecommunications infrastructure provided on the grounds of national security concerns. Huawei, meanwhile, has consistently denied any allegations from the US and said that they were baseless allegations.
