WASHINGTON, Nov 18 (Reuters) - A U.S. Senate Judiciary

subcommittee overseeing technology issues will hold a hearing

Tuesday on Chinese hacking incidents, including a recent

incident involving American telecom companies.

The hearing to be chaired by Senator Richard Blumenthal

will review the threats "Chinese hacking and influence pose to

our democracy, national security, and economy," his office said,

adding the senator plans "to raise concerns about Elon Musk's

potential conflicts of interest with China as Mr. Musk becomes

increasingly involved in government affairs."

Musk, the head of electric car company Tesla,

social media platform X and rocket company SpaceX, emerged

during the election campaign as a major supporter of U.S.

President-elect Donald Trump. Trump appointed him as co-head of

a newly created Department of Government Efficiency to "slash

excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure

Federal Agencies."

Musk, who was in China in April and reportedly proposed

testing Tesla's advanced driver-assistance package in China by

deploying it in robotaxis, did not immediately to requests for

comment.

The hearing will include CrowdStrike ( CRWD ) Senior Vice

President Adam Meyers and Telecommunications Industry

Association CEO David Stehlin, Strategy Risks CEO Isaac Stone

Fish and Sam Bresnick, research fellow at the Center for

Security and Emerging Technology at Georgetown University,

Last week, U.S. authorities said China-linked hackers have

intercepted surveillance data intended for American law

enforcement agencies after breaking in to an unspecified number

of telecom companies, U.S. authorities said on Wednesday.

The hackers compromised the networks of "multiple

telecommunications companies" and stole U.S. customer call

records and communications from "a limited number of individuals

who are primarily involved in government or political activity,"

according to a joint statement released by the FBI and the U.S.

cyber watchdog agency CISA.

The announcement confirmed the broad outlines of previous

media reports that Chinese hackers were believed to have opened

a back door into the interception systems used by law

enforcement to surveil Americans' telecommunications.

It follows reports Chinese hackers targeted telephones

belonging to then-presidential and vice presidential candidates

Donald Trump and JD Vance, along with other senior political

figures, raised widespread concern over the security of U.S.

telecommunications infrastructure.

Beijing has repeatedly denied claims by the U.S. government

and others that it has used hackers to break into foreign

computer systems.

Last month, a bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers asked AT&T ( T )

, Verizon Communications ( VZ ) and Lumen Technologies ( LUMN )

to answer questions about the reporting hacking of the

networks of U.S. broadband providers.

(Reporting by David Shepardson; editing by Jonathan Oatis and

Lincoln Feast.)