Emails between leading pro-Brexit figures in the UK have seemingly been stolen and leaked online by what could be a Kremlin cyberespionage team.
The messages feature conversations between former spymaster Richard Dearlove, who led Britain’s foreign intelligence service MI6 from 1999 to 2004; Baroness Gisela Stuart, a member of the House of Lords; and Robert Tombs, an expert of French history at the University of Cambridge, as well as other Brexit supporters. The emails were uploaded to a .co.uk website titled “Very English Coop d’Etat,” Reuters first reported this week.
Dearlove confirmed his ProtonMail account was compromised. “I am well aware of a Russian operation against a Proton account which contained emails to and from me,” he said. The Register has asked Baroness Stuart and Tombs as well as ProtonMail for comment. Tombs declined to comment.
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Source: The Register