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China stands accused of hacking the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) in a major cyberattack on armed forces’ SSCL payroll data system.
The data breach compromised the names and bank details of current military personnel and veterans, Sky News reported.
When addressing the House of Commons today (7 May), UK Defence Secretary Grant Shapps said a “malign actor” was responsible for the attack, but that the government “cannot rule out state involvement”. He added that there was “no evidence that any data has been removed”.
Shapps has announced a “multi-point plan to support and protect personnel”, an MoD spokesperson told Army Technology.
The MoD has been working urgently to grasp the scale of the cyberattack over the last three days since discovering the data breach.
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