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00:00 I will make a statement about malicious cyber activity targeting the United Kingdom
00:06 by actors that we assess are affiliated to the Chinese state.
00:11 I want to update the House on our assessment of this activity
00:15 and I want to reassure the House on the steps that the government has taken to shore up our resilience.
00:22 I can confirm today that Chinese state-affiliated actors were responsible for
00:29 two malicious cyber campaigns targeting both our democratic institutions and parliamentarians.
00:36 First, the compromise of the United Kingdom Electoral Commission between 2021 and 2022,
00:44 which was announced last summer.
00:46 And second, attempted reconnaissance activity
00:51 against UK parliamentary accounts in a separate campaign in 2021.
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