The UK government has formally accused China of being behind ‘malicious’ cyber attacks on MPs and the Electoral Commission. Two individuals and a company have been sanctioned for the cyberattacks.
British Deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden suggests that they were behind attempts to access the data of MPs critical of Beijing and potentially 40 million voters.
The Chinese Embassy in the UK said the allegations were ‘completely unfounded’ and amounted to ‘malicious slander’.
The two Chinese nationals sanctioned by the UK are Zhao Guangzong and Ni Gaobin, and the company is Wuhan Xiaoruizhi Science and Technology Company Ltd, which the British government says works for the Chinese state-affiliated cyber espionage group Advanced Persistent Threat Group 31 (APT31).
