{"id":5089,"date":"2025-12-19T09:29:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T09:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=5089"},"modified":"2025-12-19T09:29:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T09:29:13","slug":"government-data-stolen-in-hack-minister-confirms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=5089","title":{"rendered":"Government data stolen in hack, minister confirms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Government data has been stolen in a hack though officials believe the risk to individuals is &#8220;low&#8221;, a minister has said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Trade Minister Chris Bryant told BBC Breakfast &#8220;an investigation is ongoing&#8221; into the hack, adding that the security gap was &#8220;closed pretty quickly&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">A Chinese affiliated group is suspected of being behind the attack, but Bryant said investigators &#8220;simply don&#8217;t know as yet&#8221; who is responsible.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">&#8220;We think that it&#8217;s a fairly low-risk that individuals will have been compromised or affected,&#8221; Bryant said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">It comes after the Sun newspaper reported that the hack took place in October with information possibly including visa details targeted.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">It said in its <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/news\/37681625\/china-hackers-stole-secret-files-foreign-office\/\" class=\"sc-f9178328-0 iCaRzc\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a> that hackers affiliated to the Chinese state were thought to be involved. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The incident has been referred to the Information Commissioners Office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">UK intelligence agencies have warned about increasing, large-scale espionage from China, using cyber and other means, and targeting commercial and political information.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>#Government #data #stolen #hack #minister #confirms<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government data has been stole&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5090,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[242],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5089"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}