Article content In a statement, Global Affairs Canada named as responsible China’s Ministry of State Security (MSS), saying Canada and its allies are “confident” that the state intelligence agency organized the attack. The department also identified on Monday a specific regional office within the MSS that had previously targeted Canada’s defence, biopharmaceutical and oceanic technology sectors in a series of attacks in 2017 and 2018. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser. Canada joins allies in publicly blaming China for massive Microsoft Exchange hack Back to video The statement follows the massive and unusually indiscriminate hack of Microsoft email software earlier this year, which infiltrated an estimated 400,000 servers and caused widespread forced shutdowns of government and corporate operations.