Guatemala ministry says US embassy's Chinese hack report a years-old case

30/4/2025 7:24

The U.S. embassy in Guatemala said on Tuesday it found that China-based espionage groups had hacked the Central American nation's foreign ministry's computer system, but the ministry said this was an old case.



The embassy said in a post on X that the hacking was discovered during a safety revision conducted by the Guatemalan government and the U.S. Southern Command, a military branch.



Over the weekend, Guatemalan President Bernardo Arevalo had attended a cybersecurity exercise, along with officials from the U.S. embassy and Taiwan, at which he said Guatemala was facing "active threats."



Arevalo said such exercises had allowed the identification of "hostile attempts by hacker groups located in the People's Republic of China to penetrate the national cyber system."



However, Guatemala's foreign ministry dismissed the U.S.

embassy's report of a hack into its systems as old.