According to the Mail, the ministry had found the personal records of 124 British Army candidates were illegally accessed, ‘but it is thought hundreds more could have been at risk’. — AFP
LONDON: The UK defence ministry said on April 26 it was investigating a reported hack by Russia of its computer systems targeting more than 100 army recruits.
The Daily Mail reported that the hack was “feared to have been a Russian agent” with the intention of targeting the recruits “as potential agents in the British Army”.
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