Hackers Didn’t Gain Access to Senate Information in 2021 Incident: Officials

Hackers Didn’t Gain Access to Senate Information in 2021 Incident: Officials
House of Commons sergeant-at-arms Patrick McDonell carries the mace out of the House of Commons Chamber after the house rises, on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Dec. 13, 2018. The Canadian Press/Justin Tang
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Senate officials say they were told in January 2021 about phishing emails targeting parliamentary accounts—attacks that were later attributed to hackers acting on behalf of Beijing.

Some of the emails made it through firewalls and landed in senators’ email inboxes, but no one opened the messages and the attackers did not gain access to information on Senate servers, the officials say.