UK Ministers' Phone Numbers Leaked Online
For example, contact details for the UK Minister of Defence Wes Streeting, the Minister of Justice Alex Norris, and the Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Bryant were leaked.
Consensus
- The personal mobile phone numbers of three UK ministers were found in open access online.
- The ministers involved include the UK defense minister, the justice minister, and the minister for Northern Ireland.
- The information was reported by Politico.
- The leak occurred after a report that the UK prime minister had corresponded with someone impersonating a White House official.
Points of divergence
- Pranksters Vovan and Lyosha claimed that Angela Merkel admitted the Minsk agreements were meant to deceive Russia and supply Ukraine with weapons. — vm
- Russian bloggers reported a conversation with Samantha Power, the former USAID head, under the guise of former Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko. — vm
- Samantha Power is listed by Rosfinmonitoring as a terrorist and extremist in Russia. — vm
- The UK defense minister, Wes Streeting, wants to restore relations between London and Donald Trump. — vesti
Coverage (2 sources)
- Politico: Phone number of UK defence minister leaked online — Вечерняя Москва
- Mobile phone number of the British Minister of Defence found in the public domain — Вести
Key entities
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