According to Washington and London, the attacked targets included millions of people, including parliamentarians, academics, journalists as well as defense companies and contractors.
British and US authorities on March 25.3 also nicknamed the above hacker group "Advanced Persistent Threat 31" (or APT31) and accused this group of having links to China's Ministry of National Security, Reuters reported.
Officials on both sides of the Atlantic also announced a list of targets, notably White House staff, US senators, British parliamentarians and government officials around the world.
China has been accused by the US and UK of carrying out an extensive cyber attack campaign
Washington officials say decades of espionage have harmed defense contractors and many American companies. Among the targets are leading suppliers of 5G mobile phone equipment and wireless technology.
The US side said that even the spouses of high-ranking officials and parliamentarians of this country are also targets. Accordingly, the US Treasury Department imposed sanctions on Wuhan Xiaoruizhi Science and Technology Company, as well as on two Chinese citizens.
Chinese diplomats in the UK and US rejected the above information, saying they were "unfounded" accusations. The Chinese Embassy in London called this allegation "completely fabricated and maliciously slandered."
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Sheet Global Times citing a statement from the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, saying that countries should make statements based on evidence instead of "smearing" others without a basis in reality.
In recent years, Beijing has also condemned Western cyberattacks. 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.
