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Poland probes hacker attack targeting PM's top aide; Deputy PM suspects Russia

09.06.2021 13:30
Poland is investigating a hacker attack on the social media and email accounts of the prime minister’s top aide, amid suspicions that Russia was behind the incident.
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Top aide Michał Dworczyk said there had been no classified information on the compromised email account.

Polish Deputy Prime Minister Jarosław Gowin, meanwhile, said that the incident “appears to be a provocation by Russian security services.”

Dworczyk said a fake statement had appeared on the Facebook account of his wife which claimed that confidential information from his email account had been leaked by a hacker.

Polish Deputy Foreign Minister Marcin Przydacz said: “Anyone who knows Russian can see that it [the fake statement] was written by a Russian-speaking person trying to write in Polish.”

“This is a disinformation campaign,” he added.

Late on Tuesday, Dworczyk tweeted that he considers the cyberattack to be “a part of a large-scale disinformation campaign including falsified and manipulated information.”

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Source: PAP, Polish Radio