{"id":34215,"date":"2021-07-19T23:21:26","date_gmt":"2021-07-19T14:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/19\/uk-allies-accuse-chinese-state-backed-group-microsoft-hack"},"modified":"2021-07-19T23:21:26","modified_gmt":"2021-07-19T14:21:26","slug":"uk-and-allies-accuse-chinese-state-backed-group-of-microsoft-hack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=34215","title":{"rendered":"UK and allies accuse Chinese state-backed group of Microsoft hack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>British foreign secretary says Beijing will be held to account if it does not stop \u2018systematic cyber sabotage\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Britain has joined with the US and other allies in formally accusing Chinese state-based hacking groups of being behind the exploitation of an estimated 250,000 Microsoft Exchange servers worldwide earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>The UK foreign secretary said the cyber-attack amounted to \u201ca reckless but familiar pattern of behaviour\u201d, in an announcement released on Monday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/19\/uk-allies-accuse-chinese-state-backed-group-microsoft-hack\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British foreign secretary says Beijing will be held to account if it does not stop \u2018systematic cyber sabotage\u2019Britain has joined with the US and other allies in formally accusing Chinese state-based hacking groups of being behind the exploitation of an&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2327,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,800,1367,950,667,319,1003,351,1707,4,58,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-computing","category-cyberwar","category-dominic-raab","category-espionage","category-foreign-policy","category-hacking","category-internet","category-microsoft","category-politics","category-technology","category-uk-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2327"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34216,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34215\/revisions\/34216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}