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Tuesday, May 7, 2024
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Tuesday, May 7, 2024
UK has taken military database offline after Chinese hack reports, says minister
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleBritain acted quickly to take a database used by its defense ministry offline after — media reports said — it was hacked by the Chinese state, a senior British minister says.
“The MoD (Ministry of Defense) has acted very swiftly to take this database offline. It’s a third-party database and certainly not one run directly by the MoD,” Work and Pensions Secretary Mel Stride tells Sky News.
Stride says Defense Secretary Grant Shapps would make a statement to parliament about the matter later today.
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