Hackers Steal Info On UK Trade Negotiations

The cyberattack on the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) under UK’s Liz Truss has been described as a “serious security incident” that prompted government to look for a cyber security firm for “urgent support” and “support remediation and investigation,” Jacob Paul reported for Daily Express.

Photo Insert: The hack could compromise sensitive trade negotiations, like the post-Brexit deal that the UK has been working on since leaving the EU.

Dan O’Dowd, a cyber security expert and CEO of Green Hills Software, told Express.co.uk that it was “certainly possible” that it was a Russian attack, and warned the hackers could have taken “everything.”

When asked what the hackers could have taken from the attack, O’Dowd responded: “Everything.

"The National Security Agency (NSA) can do it, the Russians can do it, the Chinese can do it, probably the Iranians and maybe even North Korea too. “They all do it, they are all listening in on everything.”

O’Dowd said this could compromise sensitive trade negotiations, like the post-Brexit deal that the UK has been working on since leaving the EU. He told Express.co.uk: “You have trade negotiations. There’s a guy in the room listening with someone saying ‘well should we give them this concession or that concession.’ They know exactly what your position is.

“They know your weaknesses, they know everything. They are listening to everything you do. It is like you might as well broadcast everything you do to the Internet, except that the only people who know it are the people you most want not to know it. That is who it is going to.”

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