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MINISTERS’ PHONES ‘COULD BE HACKED IN 20 MINUTES’ USING ONLINE DATA


Geraldine Scott
, Political Reporter
Monday January 02 2023, 9.00pm GMT, The Times
Liz Truss was the victim of hacking by Russian agents while foreign secretary,
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Monday January 02 2023, 9.00pm GMT, The Times

The mobile phone numbers, social media profiles and personal details of
thousands of civil servants left publicly online for years could be used by
hackers in “parlour tricks” to try to access sensitive government information,
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Ministers are increasingly vulnerable to so-called human hacking, in which
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Until March 2020 a database with the name, job title and email address of 45,000
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