{"id":14403,"date":"2024-05-10T15:37:50","date_gmt":"2024-05-10T13:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/10\/mod-contractor-hacked-by-china-failed-to-report-breach-for-months\/"},"modified":"2024-05-10T15:37:50","modified_gmt":"2024-05-10T13:37:50","slug":"mod-contractor-hacked-by-china-failed-to-report-breach-for-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/10\/mod-contractor-hacked-by-china-failed-to-report-breach-for-months\/","title":{"rendered":"MoD contractor hacked by China failed to report breach for months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Defence ministry was told in recent days that staff details accessed but sources say SSCL knew in February<\/p>\n<p>The IT company targeted in a Chinese hack that accessed the data of hundreds of thousands of Ministry of Defence staff failed to report the breach for months, the Guardian can reveal.<\/p>\n<p>The UK defence secretary, Grant Shapps, told MPs on Tuesday that Shared Services Connected Ltd (SSCL) had been breached by a malign actor and \u201cstate involvement\u201d could not be ruled out.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/article\/2024\/may\/10\/mod-contractor-hacked-china-failed-report-breach-months\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/7cfbca8ba0c53f05294197218cc4bac968b6a022\/0_260_7791_4675\/master\/7791.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=4a476ec5f026052b62e7976c9cf17e07\" title=\"MoD contractor hacked by China failed to report breach for months\" \/>Exclusive: Defence ministry was told in recent days that staff details accessed but sources say SSCL knew in February<br \/>\nThe IT company targeted in a Chinese hack that accessed the data of hundreds of thousands of Ministry of Defence staff failed to report the breach for months, the Guardian can reveal.<br \/>\nThe UK defence secretary, Grant Shapps, told MPs on Tuesday that Shared Services Connected Ltd (SSCL) had been breached by a malign actor and \u201cstate involvement\u201d could not be ruled out. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Defence ministry was told in recent days that staff details accessed but sources say SSCL knew in February The IT company targeted in a Chinese hack that accessed the data of hundreds of thousands of Ministry of Defence staff failed to report the breach for months, the Guardian can reveal. The UK defence secretary, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/10\/mod-contractor-hacked-by-china-failed-to-report-breach-for-months\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">MoD contractor hacked by China failed to report breach for months<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":14404,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14403"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}