She stated that China presents the UK with a “epoch-defining challenge” at the CyberUK conference held in Birmingham by the National Cyber Security Centre.
China was found to have compromised the Ministry of Defence’s payroll system last week by News, while in March, Chinese hackers were suspected of obtaining voter data from the Electoral Commission regarding the United Kingdom.
China’s foreign ministry declared that it “firmly opposes and fights all forms of cyber attacks” and “rejects the use of this issue politically to smear other countries” in response to reports of the incident last week.
The leaders in cyber security in the UK are evident, nevertheless.
“China is increasingly working with others to try and reshape the world,” stated Ms.