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The hack targeted details of service personnel on a third-party Ministry of Defence server – Copyright AFP Sajjad HUSSAIN<\/small><\/em><\/p>\nHelen ROWE<\/em><\/p>\nA senior British lawmaker said on Tuesday China was probably behind a massive cyberattack on the names and banking details of UK armed forces personnel, prompting a furious denial by Beijing.<\/p>\n
MP and former minister Tobias Ellwood said a third-party payroll system used by the defence ministry was targeted, adding that it had the hallmarks of a Chinese operation.<\/p>\n
\u201cTargeting the names of the payroll system and service personnel\u2019s bank details \u2014 this does point to China because it can be as part of a plan, a strategy to see who might be coerced,\u201d, the ex-soldier and former chairman of a parliamentary defence committee, told BBC radio.<\/p>\n
Defence Secretary Grant Shapps was due to give details of the data breach to parliament later on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Shapps\u2019s cabinet colleague Mel Stride confirmed there had been an attack on a system run by an outside firm but did not elaborate.<\/p>\n
The leak is believed to have also included a small number of personal addresses of serving and former armed forces members.<\/p>\n
Stride told Sky News television, which first reported the breach, that the defence ministry had acted \u201cvery swiftly\u201d to take the database off line.<\/p>\n
But the government was not currently pointing the finger at Beijing, he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThat is an assumption\u2026 We are not saying that at this precise moment,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
But he added that the government viewed Beijing\u2019s government as an \u201cepoch-defining challenge\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur eyes are wide open when it comes to China,\u201d Stride said.<\/p>\n
\u2013 \u2018Utter nonsense\u2019 \u2013<\/p>\n
Beijing hit back at the claims from Ellwood, a China hawk who has publicly criticised Beijing\u2019s crackdown on rights in Hong Kong.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe remarks by relevant British politicians are utter nonsense,\u201d foreign ministry spokesman Lin Jian said.<\/p>\n
\u201cChina has always firmly opposed and cracked down on all types of cyberattacks.\u201d<\/p>\n
The UK and the United States in March accused China of a global campaign of \u201cmalicious\u201d cyberattacks in an unprecedented joint operation.<\/p>\n
Britain accused China of targeting the Electoral Commission watchdog and the email accounts of parliamentarians.<\/p>\n
The Electoral Commission\u00a0attack\u00a0was identified in October 2022 but the hackers had been able to access the commission\u2019s systems for more than a year.<\/p>\n
China called that accusation \u201cmalicious slander\u201d.<\/p>\n
In June 2023, Google subsidiary Mandiant said online attackers with clear links to China were behind a vast cyberespionage campaign targeting government agencies of interest to Beijing.<\/p>\n
Washington has also frequently accused Beijing of cyberattacks against US targets.<\/p>\n
Last month two British men, including a former UK parliamentary researcher, appeared in court in London accused of spying for China.<\/p>\n
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is under pressure to take a tougher line on China, and last month announced a hike in the country\u2019s defence budget to guard against new and emerging threats.<\/p>\n
On a visit to Poland, Sunak singled out China, alongside Russia, Iran and North Korea, describing them as \u201can axis of authoritarian states\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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