China Hacking UK: China is alleged to have conducted a significant cyberattack on the payroll data of the armed forces by hacking the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD).
Sky News said that the names and bank account information of veterans and serving military personnel were among the data breaches.
“the Defence Secretary [Grant Shapps] will make a planned statement to the House of Commons this afternoon setting out the multi-point plan to support and protect personnel,” a MoD spokesperson told Army Technology. The UK government has not yet identified a suspected culprit.
Ever since learning of the data leak three days ago, the MoD has been frantically trying to determine the scope of the cyberattack.
Speaking on rumours that the Chinese government had compromised a Ministry of Defence system, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Jian declared Beijing “opposes all forms of cyberattacks.”
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As the shadow chancellor accused the government of deceiving the people about the economy, Labour’s Rachel Reeves contested Rishi Sunak’s assertion that the local election results indicate a hung parliament.
According to The Independent, Reeves argued that the country had voted for change in the disastrous local elections held last week and cautioned that voters would soon have to choose between stability with Sir Keir Starmer and five more years of turmoil with the Tories.
It coincided with claims that the Ministry of Defence was the subject of a hack on a third-party payroll system that included the personal information of tens of thousands of British veterans and armed personnel.
Targeting a payroll system, according to senior Tory Tobias Ellwood, “points to China” and might be a part of a “strategy to see who might be coerced.” “Strongly opposes and fights all forms of cyberattacks,” declared China’s foreign ministry.
No 10 declined to name a particular state or actor as the source of the cyberattack, though.
