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Hackers stole data in UK government cyberattack, minister confirms

Date:
Fri, 19 Dec 2025 17:25:00 +0000

Description:
The attack seems to have happened in October but the risk towards citizens is
minimal.

FULL STORY

The UK government has confirmed speculation that classified government 
servers were hacked and accessed by threat actors , as former chief advisor
Dominic Cummings brought to light. 

Reports assessed (as did Cummings) that Chinese state-sponsored threat actors
broke into a system belonging to the UK government in October and possibly
stole data like visa information. 

Now, Trade Minister Chris Bryant has confirmed the findings on BBC Breakfast,
but played down the importance of the hit. According to the BBC, a threat
actor broke into a system operated by the Foreign Office, on behalf of the
Home Office. The break-in was addressed pretty quickly, and a more thorough
investigation is currently ongoing.

Part of modern life 

Bryant did not want to confirm nor deny that it was a Chinese threat actor,
saying the investigators simply dont know as yet who is responsible. 

He downplayed the importance of the individuals, insisting; "we think that
it's a fairly low risk that individuals will have been compromised or
affected." 

He also said that government facilities are always going to be potentially
targeted, and that the investigators are now working through the consequences
of what this is. 

"This is a part of modern life that we have to tackle and deal with," he
concluded. 

For years, government agencies and private cybersecurity organizations in the
West were warning about coordinated, organized, and large-scale cyberattacks
coming in from China. Multiple threat actors, including Volt Typhoon, Salt
Typhoon, APT27, Mustang Panda, have allegedly been targeting critical
infrastructure, telecommunications firms , governments, think tanks, and
journalists, in an attempt to disrupt key organizations and steal valuable
information. 

In its first term, the Trump administration even banned Huawei from building
out the countrys 5G infrastructure, saying the Chinese government could force
the company into installing backdoors for eavesdropping and cyber-espionage. 

China has always vehemently denied any such accusations and claims instead
that the US is the worlds largest cyber-bully. 

 Via Reuters 

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Link to news story:
https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/hackers-stole-data-in-uk-government-cyb
erattack-minister-confirms

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