{"id":324447,"date":"2025-12-19T10:24:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/324447\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T10:24:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:24:08","slug":"government-data-stolen-in-hack-minister-confirms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/324447\/","title":{"rendered":"Government data stolen in hack, minister confirms"},"content":{"rendered":"

Confirmation of a hack by a Chinese state group would be awkward for the government ahead of a planned visit to Beijing next year by Sir Keir Starmer, the first by a UK prime minister since 2018.<\/p>\n

The Labour government has said it is important to engage with China as it cannot be ignored on trade, climate change and other major issues, but face-to-face meetings also provide a forum for robust exchanges about issues affecting UK security.<\/p>\n

The Chinese government has consistently denied it backs cyber-attacks targeting the UK.<\/p>\n

Last year, responding to the UK government’s National Security Strategy, a spokesperson for the Chinese embassy in London said “accusations such as Chinese espionage, cyber-attacks, and transnational repression against the UK are entirely fabricated, malicious slander”.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, Sir Keir said UK government policy towards China could not continue to blow “hot and cold”<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Failing to navigate a relationship with China, he said, would be a “dereliction of duty” when China is a “defining force in technology, trade and global governance”.<\/p>\n

Building a careful relationship would instead bolster the UK’s place as a leader on the international stage and help secure UK national interests, Sir Keir said, while still recognising the “reality” that China “poses national security threats”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Confirmation of a hack by a Chinese state group would be awkward for the government ahead of a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324448,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-324447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}