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Russia’s main intelligence agency has meddled in Britain’s politics and democratic processes through a “sustained” cyber campaign since 2015, the UK government claimed on Thursday.
UK foreign minister Leo Docherty told the House of Commons that Russia’s Federal Security Service had used a “range of cyber espionage activities” to target MPs, peers, civil servants, journalists and NGOs.
The FSB had used stolen information obtained through cyber hacks to “meddle in British politics”, he warned, though he insisted the campaign had been “unsuccessful”.
The Foreign Office said it had sanctioned two individuals involved in the group’s activity and summoned the Russian ambassador to the UK, Andrey Kelin.
This article has been amended since original publication. Andrey Kelin is Russia’s ambassador to the UK, not Alexander Yakovenko
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