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China accused of cyber-attack on Microsoft Exchange servers
By Gordon Corera
Security correspondent
50 minutes ago
BBC
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The UK and EU have accused China of carrying out a major cyber attack earlier this year.

The attack targeted Microsoft Exchange servers, affecting over a quarter of a million servers around the world.

The EU was the first to put out a statement saying the attack came from "the territory of China", while the UK said Chinese state-backed actors were responsible. The US is expected to follow suit.

The countries have also said the Chinese Ministry of State Security was responsible for other espionage activity. ...

Microsoft announced details of the hack back in March and said a group called Hafnium, linked to China, was responsible. China denied those accusations. ...
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Re: China accused of cyber-attack on Microsoft Exchange servers
« Reply #1 on: July 19, 2021, 01:14:18 pm »
I certainly hope we're hacking China back just as hard, or preferably harder.