Why did intelligence agencies keep MPs in the dark about these hackers?

The MPs were targeted by Chinese hackers, but only learnt of the news via a US indictment.

This piece was first published by The Nightly.

Australia’s spy agencies were told twice that a group of Australian MPs belonging to an international committee on China had been targeted by Chinese hackers — but the authorities chose to keep the MPs in the dark about the cyber attacks.

It is understood that a Five Eyes intelligence agency first warned Aust…