"We'll take the advice of our national security agencies. That hasn't been the advice to date," Treasurer Jim Chalmers said

Chinese authorities have urged state-owned firms to stop using the four biggest global accounting firms over concerns about data security

After facing bans in the US and Europe, the Chinese tech giant is focusing on Africa, where analysts say countries are ignoring Western security warnings and putting their "own interests first"

Representative Jerrold Nadler, chair of the House judiciary committee, said that "three hostile foreign actors" had attacked the courts' document filing system

A report by the Wall Street Journal, citing sources familiar with the matter, said that Shanghai authorities had summoned executives from Alibaba's cloud division in relation to the data breach.