Earlier today it was reported that former UK Prime Minister Liz Truss’s personal phone was hacked earlier this year by suspected foreign agents, putting national security at risk, according to a new report on Sunday.
Further to this, unnamed “security sources” told the Mail on Sunday that the incident was discovered during the Conservative Party leadership contest over the summer, causing Truss sleepless nights as she worried it may impact her chances of winning.
In addition, then-Prime Minister Boris Johnson and cabinet secretary Simon Case are said to have imposed a total news blackout on the incident.
“It is not a great look for the intelligence services if the foreign secretary’s phone can be so easily plundered for embarrassing personal messages by agents presumed to be working for Vladimir Putin’s Russia,” a security source told the paper.
It appears that there is no evidence was given linking the breach to the Kremlin, although it’s believed that a year’s worth of messages were downloaded from Truss’s device by an unauthorized intruder.
Apparently, these included “highly sensitive” conversations with other countries’ foreign ministers about the war in Ukraine, including detailed discussions about arms shipments.
Additionally, the use by ministers of personal devices and consumer-grade services for government business is creating unacceptable national security risks, according to security experts.
It has also been reported that home secretary Suella Braverman was recently forced to resign after it was revealed that she used her personal email to send a confidential government document on immigration policy to a Tory backbenche ..
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