The UK Foreign Office announced that it has imposed sanctions on Chinese companies and other companies for their involvement in the cyber attack on the Electoral Commission.
The UK Foreign Office announced on the 25th that it had imposed sanctions on a company and two hackers in Wuhan, Hubei province, China, for their involvement in cyberattacks on multiple members of the House of Commons and the Electoral Commission. His assets will be frozen and he will be banned from traveling to the UK.
Of these, the Electoral Commission's system was said to have been accessed illegally over the course of about a year, up to October 2019. What he did is completely unacceptable."
The UK Foreign Office has insisted that there will be no impact on the election.
Meanwhile, public broadcaster BBC reported that the Electoral Commission's system contains an electoral register containing the names and addresses of approximately 40 million voters, and that there is a possibility that a lot of personal information may have passed to the Chinese side. Masu.
The report also states that there is a high possibility that the Chinese government will retaliate in some way in response to the latest sanctions.