According to Washington and London, the targets of the attacks included millions of people, including lawmakers, academics, journalists as well as defense companies and contractors.
British and US authorities on March 25 also nicknamed the hacker group "Advanced Persistent Threat 31" (or APT31) and accused the group of having ties to China's Ministry of State Security, Reuters reported.
Officials on both sides of the Atlantic also released a list of targets, notably White House staff, US senators, British lawmakers and government officials around the world .
China accused by US and UK of carrying out extensive cyber attack campaign
Washington officials say the decades-long spying operation has compromised defense contractors and many American companies. Among the targets are leading suppliers of 5G mobile phone equipment and wireless technology.
The US said that even the spouses of high-ranking officials and lawmakers were targeted. Accordingly, the US Treasury Department imposed sanctions on Wuhan Xiaoruizhi Science and Technology Company, as well as two Chinese citizens.
Chinese diplomats in the UK and US have dismissed the allegations as “groundless”. The Chinese embassy in London has called the allegations “completely fabricated and maliciously slanderous”.
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The Global Times quoted a statement from the Chinese Foreign Ministry, saying that countries should make statements based on evidence instead of "smearing" others without factual basis.
Beijing has also denounced Western cyberattacks in recent years. Last year, China’s Ministry of State Security accused the US National Security Agency of repeatedly hacking into the systems of telecommunications giant Huawei Technologies.
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