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The UK authorities is going through calls to research after an unconfirmed media report claimed former British Prime Minister Liz Truss’ phone was hacked whereas she was international secretary.
The UK’s Mail on Sunday newspaper reported that non-public messages between Truss and worldwide international ministers, together with messages concerning the conflict in Ukraine, in addition to messages with former finance minister Kwasi Kwarteng fell “into foreign hands.”
The paper claimed that the hack was found through the Conservative Party management marketing campaign over the summer season, which finally noticed Truss named prime minister.
The paper additionally claimed that “agents suspected of working for the Kremlin” had been behind the hack, citing unnamed sources.
CNN can’t independently confirm the Mail on Sunday claims, whether or not a hack occurred or who might need been behind it.
CNN has reached out to the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs for remark.
A UK authorities spokesperson informed CNN that the federal government “do not comment on individuals’ security arrangements,” however added it had “robust systems in place to protect against cyber threats.”
Chair of the federal government’s Defense Select Committee, Conservative MP Tobias Ellwood, informed Sky News on Sunday that Russia is “getting better and better at these cyber-attacks and hacking.”
“We take the most stringent measures to make sure it doesn’t happen,” he mentioned including that “it is something for the intelligence and security committee to investigate further.”
UK opposition events have demanded an investigation into the reported claims.
The Labour Party’s shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper mentioned in an announcement the report raises, “immensely important national security issues… which will have been taken extremely seriously by our intelligence and security agencies.”
The Liberal Democrats international affairs spokesperson Layla Moran additionally referred to as for an “urgent independent investigation to uncover the truth” in a tweet Saturday.