The British government confirmed on Friday morning that data held on a Foreign Office system was compromised in a cyber incident earlier this year, although it said the incident was only considered to pose a “low risk” to individuals. The incident was first reported by The Sun newspaper, which attributed the attack to the China-based group Storm-1849. It said the hackers “accessed personal information, understood to possibly include tens of thousands of visa details.”. The month the government spotted the incident, the group had been said to be exploiting vulnerabilities in a popular line of Cisco firewalls used by governments in Asia, Europe and the United States. The British government did not say which threat actor was involved in the Foreign Office incident or the method of access.
UK confirms Foreign Office hacked, says ‘low risk’ of impact to individuals (Alexander Martin – The Record)
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