UK PARLIAMENT CYBERATTACK HIT 90 ACCOUNTS AT LEAST

 

On sunday, a parliamentary spokesman said that a sustained and determined cyberattack on Britain's parliament compromised fewer than 90 email accounts. "Investigations are ongoing, but it has become clear that significantly fewer than one percent of the 9000 accounts on the parliamentary network have been compromised. As they are identified, the individuals whose accounts have been compromised have been contacted and investigations to determine whether any data has been lost are underway" said the spokesman.

The British media and The times that hackers were selling passwords for MPs online. Parliament shut down external access to email accounts on saturday as it battled the attack

Hackers have been really busy. A global ransomware attack last month hits thousands of computers. WannaCry ransomware locked access to user files and demanded payment of 300dollars in the bitcoin currency to enable you decrypt the files

SOURCE : THE PUNCH