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London: A cyberattack -- possibly by China or Russia -- reportedly hit the academic arm of the UK's Ministry of Defence and had a "significant" impact, the officer in charge at the time has revealed. According to Sky News, Air Marshal Edward Stringer, who retired from the armed forces in August, said the "sophisticated" hack -- discovered last March -- prompted the Defence Academy to accelerate plans for its entire network to be rebuilt and made more resilient. The targeting of an academic institution is a sign of how the frontline in modern warfare can be anywhere, the former director-general of the academy told Sky News. "The consequences for the operations were significant, but then manageable," Stringer was quoted as saying. Also ReadGoogle acquires Israeli cybersecurity startup Siemplify for $500 mn "But only manageable because your people work incredibly hard to keep things going and find back-up methodologies," he added. IT staff had to "find back-up ways to use regular internet, etc, etc, to keep the courses going, which we managed to do - but not as slickly as previously, that would be fair," he mentioned. He said he did not know whether criminals or a hostile state were responsible, but a primary concern had been if the hackers had tried to use the Defence Academy as a "backdoor" to penetrate much more secret parts of the MOD's IT systems. According to the report, it is the first time a senior -- albeit now-former -- official has spoken on the record about the cyberattack and its impact on the academy, which is based in Shrivenham, Oxfordshire.

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