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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Millie Cooke and Kate Devlin

Foreign Office was victim of cyber attack – and we don’t know who did it, minister admits

The UK Foreign Office was hacked in October, a minister has admitted, raising fears that thousands of confidential documents and data may have been compromised.

While ministers are “pretty confident” that visa applicants’ details have not been accessed, they have admitted that they are not confident about the identity of the hacker.

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