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MoD data breach: China suspected of UK armed forces payroll hack - BBC

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The government suspects China was behind the hack of an armed forces payroll system, the BBC understands.

Defence Secretary Grant Shapps will not identify a specific culprit when he addresses MPs today, but is expected to warn of the dangers posed by cyber espionage from hostile states.

The system used by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) includes names and bank details of armed forces personnel.

China said it "opposes all forms of cyber attacks".

In a very small number of cases, the data may include personal addresses.

The system, holding "personal HMRC-style information" for current and former members of the Royal Navy, Army and Royal Air Force over a period of several years, was managed by an external contractor.

The government became aware of the data breach in recent days, and has not found evidence hackers removed data from the system but is acting as if they did.

Cabinet minister Mel Stride told Sky News the government takes cybersecurity "extremely seriously" and acted "very swiftly".

Sources have told BBC News the investigation into who was behind the breach, which will be seen as embarrassing for the MoD, is at an early stage.

It can take months, sometimes years, to gather enough evidence to publicly accuse so China is unlikely to be officially named today.

However, that does seem to be where suspicions are pointing towards, especially in light of Beijing's track record of targeting these kind of data sets.

Service people affected by the hack will receive further information from the government about the breach and will be told any concerns are more about fraud risks rather than personal safety.

In response to the breach, Conservative MPs have raised concerns about the threat from China.

'Serious questions'

Tobias Ellwood, former chairman of the Commons Defence Committee, told BBC Radio's 4 Today programme: "Targeting the names of the payroll system and service personnel's bank details, this does point to China because it can be as part of a plan, a strategy to see who might be coerced."

He pointed to China previously trying to gain information from ex-RAF pilots.

Iain Duncan Smith said the government must admit China poses a threat to the UK.

"No more pretence, China is a malign actor, supporting Russia with money and military equipment, working with Iran and North Korea in a new axis of totalitarian states," he said.

Meanwhile, Labour's Shadow Defence Secretary John Healey said there were "serious questions" for Mr Shapps and "any such hostile action is utterly unacceptable".

Asked about the hacking accusations at a press conference, Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Lin Jian: "The remarks of these UK politicians are absurd.

"China opposes all forms of cyber attacks, and the use of this issue to smear and vilify other countries."

Last year, the government published an updated version of its long-term defence strategy which said the use of "commercial spyware, ransomware and offensive cyber capabilities by state and non-state actors has proliferated".

In March, the government publicly accused China of being behind an August 2021 hack targeting the details of millions of voters held by the Electoral Commission.

In December 2023, the National Cyber Security Centre said Russian intelligence was behind a "malicious cyber activity attempting to interfere in UK politics and democratic processes".

Public institutions and private firms have also been targeted by hackers demanding ransoms.

The Metropolitan Police said it is not involved in any investigation at this stage.

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'Fake police officer' tried to stop woman on M1 but won't face court - Leicestershire Live

A fake police officer tried to pull over a lone woman driver on the M1, but police have said there will be no investigation and the man will not be spoken to face to face. The woman says a man drove close to her on the motorway in Leicestershire and waved what looked like a warrant card, motioning for her to stop.

But she did not pull over, fearing a repeat of the Wayne Couzens attack on Sarah Everard. The woman told the BBC that when she came off the motorway she called police and gave the man's car registration number.

It has now emerged he was not an officer, but had worked for the police. Explaining what happened, the woman said the driver came up to her at speed, then pulled across and waved what looked like an official police card - with a royal crest.

She said: “Immediately, I thought he’s a policeman. I’m speeding, I should pull over. He leaned over holding the steering wheel with one hand. He was driving alongside me all the time, shouting to pull over. He was really angry. I felt really stressed.

“He’s looking at me, not the road ahead and the window wasn’t open on my side, but it was on his passenger side and he’s waving the badge that I can clearly see is a black wallet with a police crest badge stuck on the outside.

"I immediately thought of Wayne Couzens and David Carrick. I was genuinely frightened. I was shaking. I was gripping the steering wheel.”

The driver pulled off the motorway, and the woman reported him - but by then she was in the Derbyshire force area. She was told he was a Northamptonshire police officer and the incident was passed to Northamptonshire.

The force established the man had worked in a civilian role with the force for a contractor months earlier. The complaint was then passed to Leicestershire police as the incident happened in their area.

All CCTV had by then been deleted and it was not logged until an allegation of impersonating a police officer until five months after the incident. This was almost at the end of the six-month limit for prosecuting such an offence.

Because Leicestershire Police ran out of time the man was not spoken to.

In a statement, it told BBC News: “Leicestershire police takes any report of impersonation of a police officer extremely seriously. However, on this occasion our response did fall below the expected standard.”

The Professional Standards Department of Northamptonshire Police also apologised in a letter. It said: “Ultimately you have been given a poor service throughout the life of this investigation.

"You were left feeling distressed following a male’s actions and this should have been investigated as a crime from the outset. Unfortunately, early misinformation that this male was a police officer with Northamptonshire Police led to this becoming a complaint investigation as opposed to a criminal investigation.”

In the letter, the force promised to speak to the man. It contacted him a month later and, in a pre-arranged phone call, the man denied the allegations. Officers did not visit his home.

This was now twelve months after the incident.

Northamptonshire Police has also revealed there was no record of the man returning his ID card when he stopped working for the contractor.

It says that while the card would have had a Northamptonshire Police crest, it would have been stamped with the words “not a warrant card” and would not have been in a small black wallet. It added that practices for returning cards have now been tightened.

The woman said: “I feel really let down. I still feel sick, panicky and scared. I would say he was a fake policeman who wanted to do me harm.”

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Tourist influx turns Windermere green, researchers say - BBC.com

Algal blooming
Algal blooming on Windermere in August 2022

High visitor numbers are turning one of Britain's most scenic lakes green, researchers say.

A report funded by the UK space agency suggests a link between peak tourist periods and algal blooming at Windermere in the Lake District.

Algal blooming is caused by warm temperatures and nutrients, and can make the water green and toxic.

Campaigners are linking the blooms to discharges of sewage, which although mostly treated, are nutrient-rich.

United Utilities, the local water company, insists its wastewater plants can cope with peak tourist periods.

Windermere is England's largest lake and one of the country's most popular natural attractions.

But in recent years, the normally clear water has been turning green due to algal blooming, particularly during the summer. Blooming is the rapid growth of algae and can lead to reduced oxygen levels in the water, killing fish and aquatic life.

Richard Flemmings from the environmental data company Map Impact, has been trying to work out why. He wanted to study whether the blooms are just the inevitable consequence of climate change and hotter, drier summers, or whether human discharges are also playing a role.

Both treated and untreated sewage discharges contain heightened levels of the key blooming nutrient phosphorus, from both human excrement and detergents.

"There is a significant correlation between visitor numbers and chlorophyll content," Mr Flemmings says.

Chlorophyll is the compound present in plants that gives them their green colour and so an indicator of algal concentration. With funding from the UK space agency, Map Impact used infrared analysis of satellite images to measure chlorophyll levels over the last five years in Lake Windermere.

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Satellite images from August 2022 show the green blooming of Windermere (Image processed by Map Impact from ESA sensing data)

What makes Map Impact's work interesting is that it combined the chlorophyll analysis with mobile phone data.

This allowed it to estimate the number of people in the Windermere catchment area at any given time. This can vary widely from just 40,000 to 50,000 people when it's just residents, or up to 300,000 when you add tourists on a busy summer weekend.

"So what you see is typically you get a high spike in the number of people and then three to five days later you get a spike in chlorophyll in the lake," said Mr Flemmings.

Heat is one of the main drivers of algal blooming and though hot summer days are also likely to boost visitor numbers, Mr Flemmings says it has been possible to separate out the two factors.

"What we know is that algal blooms are in part caused by an increase in nitrates in the water and one of the contributors to nitrates is phosphorus which can come from human waste," he says.

The Environment Agency has done research suggesting that more than half of the phosphorus in Windermere comes from sewage. That includes sewage from overflows, United Utilities works, private sewage treatment facilities and septic tanks.

In November 2023, just 3% of the water samples collected from the lake's shoreline met minimum standards under UK legislation.

Matt Staniek on the River Brathay
Campaigner Matt Staniek of Save Windermere looks at an outfall of treated effluent on the River Brathay

Matt Staniek from the Save Windermere campaign, says treated sewage from places like the Langdale Wastewater Treatment Plant are part of the problem. It has a permit to emit more than 1m litres a day of treated effluent into the River Brathay, which feeds into Windermere. There are other similar outflows around the catchment area, and while the wastewater treatment plants can remove some of the phosphorus, some of it is also flows out into the river.

"In the press there's a lot about untreated sewage," Mr Staniek says. "But in relation to Windermere and the ecological damage that's being inflicted upon our lake, the treated sewage is as much of a problem," he said.

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The flow of treated effluent into the River Brathay which then flows into Windermere

Mr Staniek believes that when there are higher numbers of visitors, more treated sewage contributes to the algal blooming. He wants to see all sewage discharges diverted away from the Lake.

"Studies from all over the world demonstrate the exact same issues we're facing with Windermere," he said. "There is one solution that protects the lake forever, and that is to stop putting sewage in it."

United Utilities, the local water company, has carried out a feasibility study for what it calls a "discharge free" solution. But the miles of new sewage network that would be needed come with a hefty price tag.

The company denied its treated effluent might be behind the blooming.

"Our wastewater treatment works are sized to treat the sewage from maximum population numbers at peak times, and use the highest treatment standards including phosphorus removal and UV treatment to kill bacteria," a United Utilities spokesperson said.

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Hotel owner Barney Cunliffe says the answer is more capacity to treat sewage

So what's going to give?

Barney Cunliffe runs the Michelin starred Gilpin Hotel near the lake and has joined with others in the hospitality industry to raise money for the Save Windermere campaign.

Mr Cunliffe says he's worried that if nothing changes there might be what he calls "a catastrophic event" on the horizon - a massive algal bloom that effectively kills the lake and deals a serious blow to tourism and the local economy. But he's adamant that the solution is better sewage treatment, not limits on tourist numbers.

"We can't be told you've got to stop growing because our waste isn't being treated properly," he says.

"We paid for that waste to be treated. We deserve to have that infrastructure in place to enable us to grow sustainably," he said.

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China hacked Ministry of Defence, Sky News learns - Sky News

The Chinese state has hacked the Ministry of Defence, Sky News understands.

MPs will be told today of a massive data breach involving the MoD, targeting service personnel.

The government will not name the country involved, but Sky News understands this to be China.

The Chinese state is to be accused of two or three attempts at hacking MoD employees - including personnel.

The cyberattack was on a payroll system with current service personnel and some veterans. It is largely names and bank details that have been exposed.

All salaries will be paid this month.

Tobias Ellwood, a Conservative MP and former soldier, told Sky News that China "was probably looking at the financially vulnerable with a view that they may be coerced in exchange for cash".

Defence Secretary Grant Shapps will make a statement to the Commons today, with the BBC reporting he will set out a "multi-point plan" which will include action to protect affected service men and women.

The MoD hopes serving personnel will not be concerned about their safety. They will be provided with advice and support.

The contractor system is not connected to the main MoD computer systems and has been taken down with a review launched.

Read more:
Beijing poses 'constant' threat to western cybersecurity

China 'trying to undermine our democracy'

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The MoD has been working at speed over the last 72 hours to understand the scale of the hack after it was discovered in recent days.

It is understood investigations have not so far shown any data has been taken.

This could raise questions about whether other countries with challenging relationships with China will want to share sensitive intelligence with the UK.

This comes fewer than two months after China's "state-affiliated actors" have been blamed by the government for two "malicious" cyberattack campaigns in the UK.

Government minister Mel Stride told Sky News on Tuesday morning China is "an epoch-defining challenge" and "our eyes are wide open" - quoting the Integrated Review of the UK's national security and international policy completed in 2021.

He would not confirm if China is the country that hacked the MoD but said the UK needs to "get the balance right" when it comes to Beijing.

Mr Stride added: "By balance, I mean protecting our security. At the same time, I recognise and, of course, China is a very important economic player globally and, of course, big global challenges like climate change need to have China at the table, if we are to resolve those as well."

Making a speech in the Commons in March, Deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden revealed the two previous incidents involved an attack on the Electoral Commission - responsible for overseeing elections and political finance - in 2021, and targeted attacks against China-sceptic MPs.

Labour's shadow defence secretary John Healey said there are "so many serious questions for the defence secretary on this, especially from Forces personnel whose details were targeted".

He added: "Any such hostile action is utterly unacceptable.

"Parliament will expect a full Commons statement tomorrow."

Sir Iain Duncan Smith, a Conservative MP and former soldier who has been sanctioned by China, told Sky News: "This is yet another example of why the UK government must admit that China poses a systemic threat to the UK and change the integrated review to reflect that.

"No more pretence, it is a malign actor, supporting Russia with money and military equipment, working with Iran and North Korea in a new axis of totalitarian states."

Mr Ellwood said: "We are learning the hard way how art warfare is rapidly changing as technology advances.

"Defending the digital terrain is now just as important as the physical - this is another reminder why we need to invest more in defence and security.

"Targeting the MoD's payroll and bank details was probably looking at the financially vulnerable with a view that they may be coerced in exchange for cash.

"And if this type of cyberattack is taking place here in the UK we can assume other nato countries will be targeted too."

China's president Xi Jinping is currently on a tour of Europe. Pic: Reuters
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Xi Jinping, China's president, is currently on a tour of Europe - although he is not set to visit the UK.

He spent Monday in Paris and will travel with French President Emmanuel Macron to the Pyrenees on Tuesday.

After that, he will visit Serbia on Wednesday and Hungary on Thursday - both countries which are on friendly terms with Beijing.

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Legoland Windsor: Police probe baby's cardiac arrest at theme park - BBC.com

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The baby suffered a cardiac arrest at the theme park on Thursday

A woman has been arrested on suspicion of neglecting a five-month-old boy who suffered a cardiac arrest at a theme park.

The baby is in a critical condition in hospital following the incident at Legoland Windsor at about 13:00 BST on Thursday, police said.

A 27-year-old woman from Witham, Essex, was arrested on suspicion of neglecting a child to cause unnecessary injury.

She has been released on bail until 26 July.

Det Con Zoe Eele, of Thames Valley Police's Child Abuse Investigation Unit, said: "Firstly, our thoughts are with the family of the boy who is in a critical condition in hospital after suffering a cardiac arrest.

"We are working closely with the team at Legoland Windsor Resort but would like to speak to anyone who have information about this incident, specifically anyone who was queueing for the Coastguard HQ boat ride between around 11.30am and 12:45pm.

"I would ask for the public to please avoid speculation about the incident and to respect the boy's family at this deeply upsetting time."

Police said they are not looking for further suspects in relation to the incident.

In a statement, the theme park said: "On Thursday, a young guest was taken ill... and our fully trained First Aid team administered immediate care until the emergency services arrived.

"We will continue to support Thames Valley Police with their ongoing investigation."

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'Work to do' after local election losses - Rishi Sunak - BBC

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Rishi Sunak has dismissed calls to change course after poor local election results, arguing he can make "progress" with voters before a general election.

Speaking for the first time since the full scale of Tory losses was revealed, the prime minister called losing 470 councillors "bitterly disappointing".

But Mr Sunak told The Times newspaper he was "determined that we will come together as a party".

The Conservatives are licking their wounds after a string of local election defeats. After the final votes were counted on Sunday, the Tories had lost control of 10 councils, more than 470 council seats and a totemic loss of West Midlands mayor Andy Street.

The party also lost 10 Police and Crime Commissioners to Labour, marking a potentially significant blow for the Conservatives if they aim to centre their next general election campaign on law and order.

Appearing to concede for the first time that his party could be on course to lose its majority, Mr Sunak said the local election results "suggest we are heading for a hung parliament with Labour as the largest party".

The prime minister told The Times: "Keir Starmer propped up in Downing Street by the SNP, Liberal Democrats and the Greens would be a disaster for Britain.

"The country does not need more political horse trading, but action."

He added: "There is work to do and more progress to be made and I am determined that we will come together as a party and show the British people we are delivering for them."

His comments reflect analysis by leading psephologist Prof Michael Thrasher for Sky News - which suggested Labour would win 294 seats at a general election.

The projection, which has been dismissed by some polling experts, used the local election results to project a nationwide estimate of vote share at a general election.

It assumes everyone would vote in the same way at a general election as they did in last week's local elections, when smaller parties and independent candidates tend to do better in local elections.

It also does not take account of what could happen in Scotland, instead using the results of the 2019 general election, while Labour are expected to do much better there this year.

Health Minister Maria Caulfield acknowledged there were "caveats" around the projection.

However, she claimed last week's results showed former Conservative voters were staying at home, rather than switching to Labour, and "they want a reason to vote for us".

Electoral chances

Labour has denied it is planning alliances with other parties in order to form a government at the next general election, expected in the second half of this year.

Speaking on BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, Labour's election co-ordination Pat McFadden said there was now a "sense of belief" that his party could win.

He hailed the "tremendous" election results for the party, especially winning the West Midlands mayoral race which he said was "beyond our expectations".

"When people look at the Labour Party now, they can see a changed Labour Party compared to a few years ago," Mr McFadden said.

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Speaking on Sunday, former Home Secretary Suella Braverman said Mr Sunak's plan was "not working".

"There is no disguising the fact these have been terrible election results for the Conservatives," Mrs Braverman told the BBC.

Mr Sunak must "change course" towards more right-wing policies in order to win back Tory voters who are "on strike", she added.

Although a frequent critic of the prime minister, Mrs Braverman did not call for Mr Sunak's replacement, arguing it would be "impossible" to change leaders so close to a general election.

Mrs Braverman is among several conservative voices who have come out to advocate for a rightward policy shift in light of the bleak local election results.

Miriam Cates, co-chair of the New Conservatives group mostly made up of "red wall" MPs, from the party's 2019 intake, said her party must offer "patriotism and national security" to avoid falling into the "abyss".

Writing in the Telegraph, Mr Cates called on Mr Sunak to ignore policies that "serve an international elite" and instead focus on drastically reducing immigration and reforming planning laws to boost house-building.

Former lead Brexit negotiator Lord David Frost said he believed it was "too late" to save the Conservative Party from "electoral defeat at the next general election".

To save the party Mr Sunak must produce "more tax cuts, more spending cuts" and a "serious assault on the burden of net zero", Lord Frost argued.

However, Damian Green, chairman of the centrist One Nation Group of Conservative MPs, said "suggesting that what we need to do is to move to the right is irrational in the face of the electorate".

Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Westminster Hour, the former first secretary said: "I would just observe the seats that we have lost in the past few days - we lost to parties to the left of us."

Conservative Party chairman Richard Holden told the same programme that voters wanted the party to put forward a "clear vision for the country".

"I think it is self-indulgent for us to be talking to ourselves and talking about ourselves at the moment," he said.

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Minggu, 05 Mei 2024

Bradford house fire: Girl, 10, dies and four others treated - BBC

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A 10-year-old girl has died in a fire at a house in Bradford.

A woman and three other children managed to flee the blaze on Kingsdale Drive just after 01:05 BST on Sunday.

They were taken to hospital for treatment and West Yorkshire Police said their injuries were not believed to be life-threatening.

The cause of the fire was not believed to be suspicious and an investigation was continuing to establish what had happened, a force spokesperson said.

A police cordon remains in place at the scene.

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