The UK government said on Tuesday that it was investigating “potential failings” at SSCL, the private IT contractor that was breached in a suspected cyber attack by China targeting the records of UK military personnel.
The hack on the company, which has multiple government contracts providing business services to other departments, accessed the records of up to 272,000 people on the Ministry of Defence’s payroll.
The attack, discovered in recent days, was carried about by a “malign actor”, the defence secretary Grant Shapps said. He did not confirm who was behind it but a person briefed on the incident said Beijing was thought to be the culprit.
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