Beijing Accused of Hacking Mobile Phones of Top Aides at Downing Street for Years

We have learned that Beijing had been hacking mobile devices belonging to the closest advisors of three successive British Prime Ministers over four years.

Chinese operatives compromised several senior members of the government working at 10 Downing Street during the Boris Johnson, Liz Truss, and Rishi Sunak governments from 2021 to 2024 in one of the worst British intelligence failures in decades.

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Chinese state-sponsored hackers weaponized the United Kingdom’s wiretap infrastructure to expose the private communications of their own officials, according to a Jan. 26 exclusive report published in The Telegraph. The breach at Downing Street is part of a larger global espionage operation by Beijing targeting members of the Five Eyes intelligence network, which includes the United States, the UK, Australia, Canada,