The politician is having trouble logging into his email.
British MP Stuart McDonald said that a group of attackers broke his email and stole letters. hackers may have been involved in the incidentfrom Russia, and he fears that they will be made public.
This is reported by the BBC, citing MacDonald's statement.
According to him, the mail hack occurred on 13 January. The politician received a notification on his phone about an email from a colleague. There was nothing suspicious in the message, it came from the employee's genuine email.
The message said that it had a password-protected document with military news regarding Ukraine attached to it.However, when he clicked on the document, he was redirected to the login page for the email account. And after entering the password, a blank page appeared.
Later, McDonald asked the employee to resend the letter, but he said that he had not sent any letters. Later, the politician also had problems logging into his personal account – he was blocked due to suspicious activity.
“In the past few weeks, I have dealt with a sophisticated and targeted phishing hack of my personal email account and a personal email account belonging to one of my employees. These hacks are a criminal offense,” the politician commented.
It is also noted that the hacker group, from the actions of which McDonald suffered, is allegedly connected with the Russian special services. It is likely that the same group previously published the broken emails of former MI6 head Sir Richard Dearlove, as well as journalist Paul Mason.
Russian hacker attacks
Last summer, a Russian hacker group known as Cold River attacked three nuclear research laboratories in the United States. The attack occurred just as Putin announced that Russia would be ready to use nuclear weapons to “defend its territory”.
A Russian hacker group attacked several German websites, likely due to Germany's decision to transfer tanks to Ukraine. In particular, the DDoS attack was on the websites of the federal government and Hamburg Airport.
The Incident Response Team of the National Cyber Security Agency Italy announced an increase in the number of DDoS attacks on Italian government agencies from Russian hacker groups.
Russian hackers attacked Vatican websites after the Pope criticized Russia.
In November 2022, a Russian hacker with the nickname “Joker” broke Valeriy Zaluzhny, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, on Instagram.
