Liz Truss's personal phone was hacked

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11368619/Liz-Trusss-personal-phone-hacked-Putins-spies-secret-details-negotiations.html

Liz Truss's personal phone - including private messages she exchanged with Kwasi Kwarteng - was hacked by agents suspected of working for President Vladimir Putin, The Mail on Sunday's Glen Owen and Dan Hodges have revealed.

It is believed Russian agents gained access to top-secret details of negotiations with key international allies as well as messages criticising then-Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
Sources said that up to a year's worth of messages were downloaded, with the hack not discovered until this summer's Tory leadership campaign.

Liz Truss's personal phone hacked by Putin's spies

Liz Truss's personal phone - including private messages she exchanged with Kwasi Kwarteng - was hacked by agents suspected of working for President Putin, The Mail on Sunday revealed.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[ForgottenSeer 95367]

Mobile phones are easily hacked.

 

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Mobile phones are easily hacked.

For ordinary people, yes, but an important figure like a prime minister is unacceptable, especially for a long time

 

[ForgottenSeer 95367]

For ordinary people, yes, but an important figure like a prime minister is unacceptable, especially for a long time

Government VIPs do not have phones that are hardened and observed by their nation's cyber forces; they buy their phones just like everyone else does, and they do the same stuff that gets others hacked - like downloading stuff and replying to unsolicited SMS texts.

There is no such thing as a hardened, safe mobile phone. They all have problematic security.

 

[ScandinavianFish]

Its why there needs to be mandates for all governments around the world. Strong passwords, MFA everywhere, zero trust policies for RDP/VPN's, etc.

its such an pain to see how private individuals have better security practices than large, multi-billion enterprises and even government.

 

[piquiteco]

I agree with @ScandinavianFish, the first thing I do, when I create an online account is to enable MFA, every account I use anywhere has MFA enabled. And I am an ordinary person.

 

[ForgottenSeer 95367]

Couldn't be further from the truth. You claim this as if you know it and know the inner workings of different government agencies! Truth is lay people like us cannot know how their phones are being protected. Sometimes people do make mistakes using normal cell phones (the kinds you and I use) - Trump was an example as he used to Tweet using his normal phone.
Tonnes of scientific papers though around how phones are generally secured!

The US govt does not provide hardened phones to its politicians nor to govt employees generally. Same as in the EU. The purchased phones are stock, unmodified, off-the-shelf. That's why they get breached all the time. In fact, Hillary Clinton used a personally-purchased phone in her classified briefings debacle.

People that work for the US govt with Public Trust and Secret clearances do not have receive specially modified phones (and, yes, there is a program to do so). There is classified infos and then there is critical unclassified infos and just ordinary unclassified infos. You would think that the US govt would issue hardened phones to anyone with a Top Secret clearance, but it does not do so generally. Only members of the intelligence community get one.


The standing rule has always been that people are not permitted to send classified infos by ANY smartphone. And yet here we are in 2022, 2 decades later, and politicians and govt employees are still violating their own country's laws.

None of this is secret. It's all out there in the public domain for a very long time by now.

 

[Kongo]

Should have used Lockdown Mode

About Lockdown Mode - Apple Support

Lockdown Mode helps protect devices against extremely rare and highly sophisticated cyber attacks.

support.apple.com

 

[HarborFront]

This is a good time to check her phone and see whether the UK and US are involved in the blowing up of the undersea gas pipelines.

The findings by some countries already have indications as such but cannot be made known publicly.

If it's Russia who blew up the gas pipelines then EU, UN, US and her allies would have condemned and taken action against her immediately

 

[Stopspying]

The linked article is from 12 Febuary 2022, before Less Trust got her turn at badly impersonating a Prime Minister for a few days, but I think it might fill in some background about her vanity character and explain why her behaviour might have made her a more likely hacking target.

"Instagram diplomacy’: concerns grow over Liz Truss’s publicly funded five photos a day".

‘Instagram diplomacy’: concerns grow over Liz Truss’s publicly funded five photos a day

From driving a tank to jogging in New York, the foreign secretary has made more than 700 appearances on the government’s Flickr account since taking up the job

www.theguardian.com

"From driving a tank to jogging in New York, the foreign secretary has made more than 700 appearances on the government’s Flickr account since taking up the job"