Hackers breached the email accounts of British officials
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