Chinese Regime Will Be Held Accountable Unless It Ends ‘Systematic Cyber Sabotage’, UK Warns

Britain's Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab walks in Downing street in London on May 27, 2021. Niklas Halle'n/AFP via Getty Images

The UK on Monday confirmed that Chinese state-backed actors were responsible for the cyberattack on Microsoft Exchange earlier this year that affected over a quarter of a million servers worldwide.

Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said in a statement that the attack was “a reckless but familiar pattern of behaviour.”