A personal email account belonging to Liam Fox, the former trade minister, was repeatedly hacked into by Russians who stole classified documents relating to US-UK trade talks, the Guardian understands. Whitehall sources indicated the documents were hacked from a personal account rather than a parliamentary or ministerial one, prompting Labour to ask why Fox was using unsecured personal emails for government business. “What shocks me is using insecure personal email accounts for sensitive, classified government business. It had previously been thought that the US-UK trade documents were hacked via a special adviser’s personal email. He was made trade secretary under Theresa May in 2016.

Source: The Guardian August 03, 2020 15:57 UTC