OTTAWA — Liberal and Conservative MPs testified Thursday that the government and the country’s intelligence agencies had failed them by keeping them in the dark about cyberattacks targeting their emails.

The six MPs, all members of the global organization the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China, testified in front of their colleagues about having been targeted by the Advanced Persistent Threat 31 (APT31), who are considered to be state-sponsored Chinese hackers.

In total, 18 MPs and Senators were targeted by a Chinese hacking group in 2021, but CSIS and the CSE never informed them.{ai:summary}<p>Liberal and Conservative MPs reveal government negligence in informing them about cyberattacks on their emails by state-sponsored Chinese hackers.APT31 targeted members of the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China, shedding light on national security concerns. #foreignaffairs</p>

'It’s not acceptable': MPs say government kept them in the dark about cyberattacks

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