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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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