A Chinese state-sponsored group targeted New Zealand lawmakers in a hack in 2021, the New Zealand government revealed on Tuesday. The announcement came after Britain and the US revealed that their democratic institutions and lawmakers had also been targeted. “The use of cyber-enabled espionage operations to interfere with democratic institutions and processes anywhere is unacceptable,” New Zealand Minister Responsible for the Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) Judith Collins said. The hack had been attributed to a Chinese state-sponsored group known as APT40, Collins said. New Ze…