British Parliament Hit by Cyberattack, Affecting Email Access

Re:British Parliament Hit by Cyberattack, Affecting Email Ac... by krona on Saturday June 24, 2017 @03:12PM (#14627010)

In what way have they been 'hacked'?

Constituents can email their MPs and I'd imagine they all share the same few email servers. It's not hard to imagine that someone thought they'd 'have a go' (as was the case during the election period), and the reaction by Parliament has so far been a precautionary one.

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Re:British Parliament Hit by Cyberattack, Affecting Email Ac... by djrogers on Saturday June 24, 2017 @03:49PM (#14627178)

FTA: > stolen data revealed the private login details of 1,000 British members of Parliament and parliamentary staff, 7,000 police employees and more than 1,000 Foreign Office officials.

Not sure how that wouldn’t be treated as a cyberattack. Note, the word used was not ‘hack’ - not all cyberattacks are hacks.

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Re:British Parliament Hit by Cyberattack, Affecting Email Ac... by krona on Saturday June 24, 2017 @06:40PM (#14627783)

Seems the NYT changed the title to remove the 'hack' insinuation.

> stolen data revealed the private login details of 1,000 British members of Parliament and parliamentary staff, 7,000 police employees and more than 1,000 Foreign Office officials.

That was reported last week. The attacks happened months ago. (Why do I even bother?)

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Re:British Parliament Hit by Cyberattack, Affecting Email Ac... by Leynos on Saturday June 24, 2017 @03:56PM (#14627212)

The story suggests that remote access has been disabled following a password leak, which suggests some form of malicious attack.

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