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FBI tells Canadian parliamentarians they were targets of Chinese hackers in 2021
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A group of Canadian MPs and senators who belong to an international parliamentary alliance critical of the Chinese government say the FBI recently informed their organization that many in their ranks were targeted by hackers linked to Beijing.
Neither the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) nor the RCMP responded to a Globe and Mail request for comment on whether investigations were launched or preventative measures taken to protect the parliamentarians from Chinese hacking.
It was established in 2020 to ensure a co-ordinated response among democracies to the actions of the authoritarian Chinese Communist Party (CCP) on matters including human rights, security, trade and the rules-based international order.
The Chinese hackers’ targeting of parliamentarians included what are called pixel attacks, according to an IPAC e-mail obtained by The Globe that was sent to a Canadian politician to notify them that they were among the victims.
The complaint from Mr. McKay and Mr. Genuis represents the latest incident where parliamentarians have discovered that the Liberal government failed to notify them that they were the target of hostile activity from China.
In May, 2023, The Globe revealed that CSIS had warned Ottawa that the Chinese government was targeting Conservative foreign-affairs critic Michael Chong and his Hong Kong relatives after he championed a parliamentary motion to condemn Beijing’s repression of China’s Uyghur ethnic minority.
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