US, UK and New Zealand accuse China of cyberattacks, Beijing denies. As 2024 promises to be a particularly dense election year around the world, they are issuing a rare joint warning to Beijing.
US Department of Justice announced that it had indicted seven Chinese for a “ prolific global hacking operation ” over 14 years aimed at contributing to Beijing’s “ economic espionage and foreign intelligence objectives ” The attack on the Electoral Commission allowed access to servers containing copies of electoral registers with the data of 40 million voters, according to British media.