Mobiles are ‘potential goldmines’ for hostile states, MPs warned

The Commons speaker, Lindsay Hoyle, said no personal phone was safe from a ‘determined nation-state attacker’. Photograph: Jessica Taylor/UK parliament/AFP/Getty Images

MPs have been told their phones are a “potential goldmine” for hostile states who are targeting them to influence democracy in the UK.

Advice was shared by the Commons speaker, Lindsay Hoyle, suggesting MPs should not take their phones into sensitive meetings, given the threat from state-backed hackers, as well as criminals and fraudsters.