Hackers breached the email accounts of British officials, including… (хакер · сотрудник · великобритания)
Hackers breached the email accounts of British officials, including foreign ministry staff abroad. Hackers compromised the emails of UK foreign ministry employees and stole their account data.
Consensus
- Hackers compromised email accounts of British Ministry of Foreign Affairs staff and officials abroad
- Accounts of embassy personnel in Thailand and Mauritius were compromised
- Local government employees in Derbyshire and Waltham Forest were affected
- The stolen data was put up for sale on darknet forums
- The price for the data set was $60,000
Points of divergence
- Some of the leaked data provided access to NHS systems, energy suppliers and key pharmaceutical distributors — kommersant
- Approximately 80,000 computers belonging to the British government and Foreign Office were compromised — vm
- Hackers used previously stolen data to breach Fortinet firewalls — vm
- A hacker group linked to Iran, 'Hundala', claimed access to FPV drone imagery used by the FBI for stadium security — vm
- Former U.S. President Barack Obama's official Instagram account was hacked — vm
- The data is being sold in the darknet for 4.6 million rubles (approximately $60,000) — fontanka
Coverage (4 sources)
- Russian-speaking hackers breached the email accounts of UK Foreign Ministry staff — Коммерсантъ
- Hackers breached tens of thousands of computers in the UK government and Foreign Office — Вечерняя Москва
- Hackers put British Foreign Ministry staff email data up for sale — Фонтанка
- Hackers breached emails of UK Foreign Ministry staff, reports say — Вести