New Zealand says hackers linked to the Chinese government targeted its Parliament in 2021.
FILE - A statue of New Zealand politician Richard Seddon stands outside Parliament in Wellington, New Zealand, Sunday, July 5, 2020. Hackers linked to the Chinese government launched a state-sponsored operation that targeted New Zealand's Parliament in 2021, the country's security minister said, Tuesday, March 26, 2024.
The bureau's National Cyber Security Centre"completed a robust technical assessment" following a compromise of the Parliamentary Counsel Office and the Parliamentary Service in 2021, and has attributed this activity to a PRC state-sponsored group known as APT40,” Collins said. Collins said New Zealand will not follow the U.S. and U.K. in sanctioning China because New Zealand does not have a law allowing such penalties, nor were there plans to introduce legislation.
“Foreign interference of this nature is unacceptable, and we have urged China to refrain from such activity in future,” Peters said in a statement Tuesday. “New Zealand will continue to speak out — consistently and predictably — where we see concerning behaviors like this.”“We cooperate with China in some areas for mutual benefit,” he said."At the same time, we have also been consistent and clear that we will speak out on issues of concern.
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