Watch stay: Defence Secretary Grant Shapps delivers assertion following MoD knowledge breach

Defence Secretary Grant Shapps will make a "planned statement" right this moment, setting out particulars of a "multi-point plan to support and protect personnel" after the Ministry of Defence was hacked.

The authorities won’t title the nation concerned, however Sky News understands this to be China.

China has mentioned it "firmly opposes and fights all forms of cyber attacks".

It added it "rejects the use of this issue politically to smear other countries".

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