{"id":62839,"date":"2024-03-26T04:14:49","date_gmt":"2024-03-25T19:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/mar\/25\/china-cyber-attacks-why-this-growing-threat-to-uk-security-will-not-go-away"},"modified":"2024-03-26T04:14:49","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T19:14:49","slug":"china-cyber-attacks-this-growing-threat-to-uk-security-will-not-go-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=62839","title":{"rendered":"China cyber-attacks: this growing threat to UK security will not go away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the Electoral Commission the latest target on a list that includes the economy and supply chains, experts warn of data-gathering \u2018on an industrial scale\u2019<\/p>\n<p>In March last year an integrated review of the UK\u2019s defence and foreign policy said it would protect the country\u2019s \u201cdemocratic freedoms\u201d from Chinese state attacks.<\/p>\n<p>A few months later the Electoral Commission confirmed why democratic institutions and processes were on the threat list as it revealed that a cyber-attack \u2013 by a then unidentified assailant \u2013 had accessed the data of 40 million voters.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/mar\/25\/china-cyber-attacks-why-this-growing-threat-to-uk-security-will-not-go-away\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the Electoral Commission the latest target on a list that includes the economy and supply chains, experts warn of data-gathering \u2018on an industrial scale\u2019In March last year an integrated review of the UK\u2019s defence and foreign policy said it would p&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2675,"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":[50,987,1093,1206,4,58,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-cybercrime","category-fbi","category-oliver-dowden","category-politics","category-technology","category-uk-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62839","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\/2675"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62839"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62840,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62839\/revisions\/62840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}