The British government has denied being "complacent" over the Solarwinds hack as a fed-up peer of the realm urged a minister to "answer the question".
Lord True, the government's Cabinet Office spokesman in the House of Lords, described the attack as "a complex and global cyber incident" and said UK.gov was "working with international partners to fully understand its scale and any UK impact."
The Conservative minister had been answering questions from the House of Lords over the SolarWinds hack, the largest supply chain security breach in recent years. Although the attack had been seemingly targeted at the US, parliamentarians are worried that the British government is simply brushing off suggestions that the UK was also affected, cabinet office spokesman tells house lords being complacent about impact solarwinds
