The Ministry of Defence has been the target of a large-scale data breach, it is understood.
A third-party payroll system has been hacked, potentially compromising the bank details of all serving armed forces personnel and some veterans. A very small number of addresses may also have been accessed.
The Government will inform MPs of the breach when Parliament returns on Tuesday, with Defence Secretary Grant Shapps to make aHe told Sky News, which first claimed China was behind the hack: “That is an assumption. We are not saying that at this precise moment.” “We strongly oppose such accusations. China has always firmly fought all forms of cyber attacks according to law.
The revelation comes after the UK and the United States in March accused China of a global campaign of “malicious” cyber attacks in an unprecedented joint operation to reveal Beijing’s espionage. In response to the Beijing-linked hacks on the Electoral Commission and 43 individuals, a front company, Wuhan Xiaoruizhi Science and Technology Company, and two people linked to the APT31 hacking group were sanctioned.
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