MPs will be told of a massive data breach involving the Ministry of Defence later today, targeting service personnel.
The Chinese state has hacked the Ministry of Defence, Sky News understands.
MPs will be told today of a massive data breach involving the MoD, targeting service personnel.
The government will not name the country involved, but Sky News understands this to be China.
The Chinese state is to be accused of two or three attempts at hacking MoD employees - including personnel.
The cyberattack was on a payroll system with current service personnel and some veterans. It is largely names and bank details that have been exposed.
Remember when closer economic ties with China was going to make them into a liberal democracy? That was awesome.
And Sky News learned about it before Parliament? That isn’t very confidence inspiring.
There was a time that the UK government had China involved in the development of a new nuclear power station, Sizewell C. They corrected their mistake.
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The cyberattack was on a payroll system with current service personnel and some veterans. It is largely names and bank details that have been exposed.
I mean, that’s not ideal, but as information goes, that seems kind of limited. Bank data is maybe useful for someone trying to steal money, but I don’t see as how Chinese intelligence would benefit that much.
Maybe they could confirm that someone was working for the British military or something, like if they were working secretly for military intelligence? I don’t know if that’s something that the UK does.
I could see it as being a way to find people that could be bribed.
If your bank balance is in the negative and you work for the MoD, that’s a great way for China to get you to spy for them.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
MPs will be told today of a massive data breach involving the MoD, targeting service personnel.
Tobias Ellwood, a Conservative MP and former soldier, told Sky News that China “was probably looking at the financially vulnerable with a view that they may be coerced in exchange for cash”.
Defence Secretary Grant Shapps is expected to make a statement to the Commons today, with the BBC reporting he will set out a “multi-point plan” which will include action to protect affected service men and women.
This comes fewer than two months after China’s “state-affiliated actors” have been blamed by the government for two “malicious” cyberattack campaigns in the UK.
“No more pretence, it is a malign actor, supporting Russia with money and military equipment, working with Iran and North Korea in a new axis of totalitarian states.”
"Targeting the MoD’s payroll and bank details was probably looking at the financially vulnerable with a view that they may be coerced in exchange for cash.
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