Source Feed: The Globe and Mail
Author: Steven Chase, Robert Fife
Publication Date: April 29, 2024 - 20:27
MPs call for hearings on Chinese hack targeting legislators, lack of warning from Ottawa
April 29, 2024
Members of Parliament who say they were not informed by Ottawa that they had been targeted by hackers tied to the Chinese government are seeking House of Commons hearings on the matter.As The Globe and Mail first reported Monday, Canadian MPs and senators who belong to a global interparliamentary organization critical of the Chinese government say the FBI recently informed their group that 18 legislators in Canada were targeted in 2021 by hackers linked to Beijing. The Federal Bureau of Investigation told the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China last week that it passed on this information to foreign governments in 2022.
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