UK government agencies, think tanks, businesses and charities also appear in the leaked i-Soon data.
Other documents hint at successful hacks of public bodies and businesses across Asia and Europe, but it is not yet clear if any were compromised.
The identity of the leaker is unknown.
i-Soon is one of many private companies that provide cyber security services for China’s military, police and security services.
It employs less than 25 staff at its Shanghai headquarters.
China claims a LOT of things. Poor paper tiger ‘country’.
When it comes to hacking, China is very capable. Along with the US, Russia and even North Korea (no, really), they are the main state actors.
However these days zero day exploits are more often written by private contractors (a lot in Argentina, for some reason) and then sold to nation states on discrete markets, rather than written by state actors themselves. It wasn’t the NSA who gave the FBI the ability to unlock an iPhone when they couldn’t compel Apple to do so through the courts.