A Hong Kong pro-democracy activist reportedly tortured in China may have been the source through which China-backed hackers accessed emails of Canadian parliamentarians, a global legislative coalition director told a House of Commons committee.
Luke de Pulford, executive director of the global coalition Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC), made the comment on Sept. 26 in response to a question from Conservative MP Garnett Genuis during his testimony before the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs.
The committee is investigating a 2021 cyberattack by the Chinese hacker group Advanced Persistent Threat Group 31 (APT31) that targeted legislative members of IPAC, including 18 Canadian parliamentarians. Genuis, who serves as the Canadian chair at IPAC, asked about how the hackers obtained his personal email and the IPAC email distribution list….