UK Foreign Office Targeted by Hackers

Chinese Hacking Group Reportedly Behind the Hack Akshaya Asokan (asokan_akshaya) • December 19, 2025

A top-ranking U.K. government official said that hackers targeted the government's foreign relations ministry but dismissed media reports that the attackers stole a large trove of data.

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Trade Minister Chris Bryant on Friday told Sky News that hackers breached the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office network in October.

"We managed to close the hole, as it were, very quickly," Chris Bryant said. "It was a technical issue in one of our sites, I gather. And we're fairly confident that there's a low risk of any individual actually being affected by this."

The incident was first reported Thursday by tabloid newspaper The Sun, which said a Chinese hacking group, Storm-1849, carried ...