Beijing Dismisses Western Intelligence Allegations of Chinese Hacking

What’s new: China’s foreign ministry has denied allegations made by Western intelligence agencies that a Chinese state-sponsored hacking group recently attacked key U.S. infrastructure, dismissing the report as a “collective disinformation campaign.”

The report, released Wednesday by Microsoft and members of the U.S.-led Five Eyes intelligence alliance, was “extremely unprofessional” and “a patchwork with a broken chain of evidence,” foreign ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said during a press briefing Thursday.