Hackers Infect British Parliament Computers with Ransomware

  • 10 November 2015
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By Ryan De Souza on November 10, 2015
 
                                              


 
Cyber cooks breached the security of British parliament’s secure network and hacked into many of its computer systems.
 
The hack allowed the hackers to leak several confidential documents in relation to MP for NewCastle upon Tyne Central, Chi Onwurah and her employees.
 
This is one of the first successful attacks on the parliament’s secure network and the authorities in the UK now fear for the worse as this is the second high-profile cyber-attack in fewer months’ time.
 
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Well, if that does not ram it home...in all the right places, that they need to get their house (no pun intended) in order and that of the nation's then I do not know what will make them sit up and take notice other than that...LOL.
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I second Baldrick statement on this issue Parliament needs to get their act together or their in for a long.............long........uphill battle.

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