Up to 272,000 personnel may have been affected by the hack says Rt Hon Grant Shapps MP

Commons now on the ministerial statement from Rt Hon Grant Shapps MP on a data incident involving “a malign actor” on the army payroll system not connected to the main MoD system - names, bank details and in some cases addresses of serving and former service personnel were accessed

After Labour’s John Healey names Shared Services Connected Ltd - SSCL - as the contractor involved in the MoD hack, Defence Secretary Grant Shapps confirms it

SSCL says “SSCL plays a central role in delivering the MOD’s vision to transform core payroll, HR and pension services

This has to represent a turning point.

These are actions suited to hybrid warfare, not the “mutual respect” of which Beijing and London regularly boast.

China under Xi Jinping is not a friend.

Remove the blinkers. Our China strategy has failed. We need some realism fast.

Chinese spies, cyberattacks on parliamentarians and now a revelation about a Chinese hack attempt on our Ministry of Defence. This is evidently a consistent and egregious pattern of behaviour from the PRC - we cannot delude ourselves into normalising it.

Exclusive - Sky News can reveal a massive China hack attempt on MOD system.

We have learnt the Chinese state are behind an attempt on armed forces payroll systems. Current forces and some veterans affected and will be contacted tomorrow

Systems run by a contractor - big

Obscene.

Back at Trinity College Cambridge University this weekend for a little bit. Gorgeous as ever.

Just returned from Ukraine. I drove to Kyiv from the UK as part of a convoy of vehicles to hand over to Ukrainian soldiers.

These brave men and women need our support more than ever.

Labour's support for their freedom and liberty is unshakeable.

Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦🇬🇧

Israeli airstrike that killed seven health workers in Lebanon used US munition, analysis revealsk theguardian.com/world/article/…

🚨Urgent statement: 'Forcing over a million displaced Palestinians from Rafah to evacuate without a safe destination is not only unlawful but would lead to catastrophic consequences.

Our aid workers are reporting some of the most severe conditions in recent memory, including

💥🇫🇷 Politicians targeted by 🇨🇳 sponsored cyber attacks to hold press conference in French Senate during the visit of Xi Jinping.💥

Details below 👇

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Conférence de presse :
Cyber-attaque contre les parlementaires par des hackers chinois
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❗️ BREAKING ❗️

Six Australian Senators and MPs have confirmed that they were targeted by 🇨🇳 state sponsored hacking group APT31 in 2021.

The politicians confirmed details with both the IPAC Secretariat and the 🇦🇺Government.

None of the legislators were informed of the attack

EXCLUSIVE: Australia’s spy agencies were told twice that a group of MPs had been targeted by Chinese hackers — but chose to keep those MPs in the dark. buff.ly/44BAS8H

My piece in today’s The Times and The Sunday Times⁩ about Iranian rapper ⁦⁦⁦⁦⁦توماج صالحی🌋⁩ who refused to stop criticising the Islamic regime even after torture. What a hero.
Iran’s hip-hop hero refused to be silenced. Now he’s been sentenced to death thetimes.co.uk/article/irans-…

Regime forces continue to launch attacks against displaced civilians in northwestern #Syria . Today, a child was killed, and his mother was critically injured after the regime bombed their makeshift house in the town of Abzimo in the western countryside of Aleppo.
#WhiteHelmets

This evening marks Yom HaShoah - Holocaust Memorial Day.

As we do every year, we will take a moment to stop our lives and remember those who were murdered in the Holocaust. We also remember those who survived the horrors - whose stories deserve to be heard.