Keir Starmer ditched 'dangerously obvious email after suspected Russian hack'

The PM scrapped the email relationship successful 2022 portion person of the absorption aft being informed by information services his email whitethorn person been compromised, a caller publication claims

Keir Starmer was forced to ditch his "dangerously obvious" idiosyncratic email code aft a suspected Russian hack, a caller publication claims.

The Prime Minister abandoned the relationship successful 2022 portion person of the absorption aft being informed by information services his email whitethorn person been compromised by Kremlin-linked hackers.

According to a caller publication connected Mr Starmer's emergence to No10 - Get In - a elder subordinate of his team, Jill Cuthbertson, told unit not to email the Labour person nether immoderate circumstance.

It added the Labour person past changed his email and added two-factor authentication, which requires aggregate ID checks to entree emails and data. It prevents cyber criminals from accessing the accusation - adjacent if they person your password.

Mr Starmer was reportedly told determination was nary grounds emails had been published but was fixed nary guarantees delicate information had not been stolen. A root told the book's authors the archetypal email code had been "dangerously obvious" and the incidental happened conscionable months aft Russia's penetration of Ukraine successful 2022.

No10 declined to remark connected the claims connected Monday.

In the aforesaid twelvemonth it was reported the ex-PM Liz Truss's idiosyncratic telephone was compromised in a hack discovered during the Tory enactment contention erstwhile she ran against Rishi Sunak.

The Mail connected Sunday claimed astatine the clip spies suspected of moving for the Russian person Vladimir Putin were down the hack and downloaded messages. According to the newspaper, 1 root claimed the telephone was truthful heavy compromised it was "locked harmless wrong a unafraid authorities location" astatine the time.

Four years earlier Boris Johnson, who was past Foreign Secretary successful Theresa May's government, was targeted by a Russian prank caller pretending to beryllium the PM of Armenia. The excruciating 18-minute audio Mr Johnson discussed the UK-Russian relations, Syria, and the Salisbury poisoning successful 2018.