Lib Dem blows raspberry at Sir Humphrey-style non-answer
Gareth Corfield Tue 26 Jan 2021 // 09:30 UTC Share
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The British government has denied being complacent over the Solarwinds hack as a fed-up peer of the realm urged a minister to answer the question .
Lord True, the government s Cabinet Office spokesman in the House of Lords, described the attack as a complex and global cyber incident and said UK.gov was working with international partners to fully understand its scale and any UK impact.
The Conservative minister had been answering questions from the House of Lords over the SolarWinds hack, the largest supply chain security breach in recent years. Although the attack had been seemingly targeted at the US, parliamentarians are worried that the British government is simply brushing off suggestions that the UK was also affected, which it certainly is.
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Analysis As the debris from the explosive SolarWinds hack continues to fly, it has been a busy 48 hours as everyone scrambles to find out if, like various US government bodies, they ve been caught in the blast. So, where are we at?
In terms of the news flow, it started in the middle of last week with FireEye. The specialist IT security firm brought in by multinationals when they suffer high-profile hacks found itself admitting last week it had itself been hacked.