This was the attack done before the Australian general election in May, sources say.
Australia’s cyber intelligence agency - the Australian Signals Directorate - concluded in March that China’s Ministry of State Security was responsible for the attack, the five people with direct knowledge of the findings of the investigation told Reuters.
China’s Foreign Ministry denied involvement in any sort of hacking attacks and said the internet was full of theories that were hard to trace. Australian authorities felt there was a “very real prospect of damaging the economy” if it were to publicly accuse China over the attack, one of the people said.Australia in February revealed hackers had breached the network of the Australian national Parliament. Morrison said at the time that the attack was “sophisticated” and probably carried out by a foreign government. He did not name any government suspected of being involved.
The timing of the attack, three months ahead of Australia’s election, and coming after the cyber-attack on the US Democratic Party ahead of the 2016 US election, had raised concerns of election interference, but there was no indication that information gathered by the hackers was used in any way, one of the sources said.
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