House Committee Begins Study of Chinese Cyberattack Against Lawmakers

A House of Commons committee has begun investigating a 2021 cyberattack by a Chinese hacker group targeting parliamentarians after MPs unanimously voted last month to initiate the inquiry. Several House of Commons officials testified June 4 about revelations that Chinese cyber threat actors targeted 18 Canadian MPs and senators. This follows a U.S. indictment in March, which charged seven hackers from the group known as APT31. The group has spent more than a decade targeting political and business figures, as well as critics of the Beijing regime, according to the indictment. “I should have been informed about this attack. I wasn’t,” Conservative MP Garnett Genuis, one of the targeted parliamentarians, said during the Procedure and House Affairs committee meeting. He reiterated his concerns that the government did not actively inform affected parliamentarians of the threat....