- Britain confirms its Foreign Office system was hacked in October. Data may have been stolen
- risk to people classified as low; The investigation is still ongoing. The mission is unclear.
- Chinese state actors suspected this. Did not officially confirm it.
The UK government has confirmed speculation that secret government servers have been hacked. Accessed by bad actors. Former senior adviser Dominic Cummings has revealed.
The reports indicate (as does Cummings) that Chinese state-sponsored threat actors broke into a UK government system in October. Stolen data such as visa information.
Business Secretary Chris Bryant confirmed the results on BBC Breakfast is have by may. Played down the significance of the success. According to the BBC, a threat actor on behalf of the Home Office has broken into a system run by the Foreign Office. The robbery was solved “quite quickly”. Further investigations are currently underway.
Part of modern life
Bryant neither confirmed nor denied it was a Chinese actor. Saying investigators “just don’t know yet” who was responsible.
He downplayed each person. Insisted; “We believe that the risk of people being endangered. Relatively low.”
He also said that “government agencies are still potentially under attack” is is by harmed. That researchers are “examining the implications of this.”
“This is an aspect of modern life that we have to deal with. Deal with. ” he concluded.
For years. Western governments. Private cyber security organizations have warned of large-scale. Organized. Coordinated cyber attacks from China. Several threat actors. Including Volt Typhoon.
Salt Typhoon. APT27. Mustang Panda. Have reportedly attacked critical infrastructure. Telecommunications companies. Governments. Think tanks. Journalists in an attempt to disrupt key organizations. Steal valuable information.
During its first term. The Trump administration even banned Huawei from expanding the country’s 5G infrastructure. Saying the Chinese government could force the company to install backdoors for wiretapping. Cyber espionage.
China has always vehemently denied such accusations. Claiming instead that the US is the world’s biggest “cyber tyrant”.
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