
MP Genuis Says Chinese Hackers Targeted His Personal Email, Rejects ‘No Cybersecurity Impacts’ Claim From House Speaker’s Office
Published on May 3, 2024
Conservative MP Garnett Genuis said that his personal email was targeted by a group of Chinese hackers as part of cyberattacks on 18 Canadian parliamentarians. He disputed a statement from the Office of the Speaker of the House of Commons that the attacks were thwarted with “no cybersecurity impacts.” “The cyber-attack against me from APT31 did not target my parliamentary email account. While in many cases parliamentary accounts were targeted, in my case the cyberattack targeted my personal non-parliamentary account,” he said in the House of Commons on May 1. “I have no idea how APT31 came to access my personal non-parliamentary account, because it is not publicly available.”...
